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1 May 2026

Tag: Institute of Teaching

Institute of Teaching won’t take first trainees until 2023 after pilot year dropped

The government’s new Institute of Teaching won’t take on its first trainee teachers until 2023 after plans for a limited pilot next year were dropped. The Department for Education had originally stated in tender documents for the £121 million, six-year contract that the IoT would be expected to deliver a “pilot” initial teacher training (ITT) […]

Everything you need to know about the government’s new Institute of Teaching

Just £17 million of £121 million budgeted for the government’s “world-leading” Institute of Teaching is guaranteed to set up and run the organisation. The rest is dependent on recruitment and future spending reviews, Schools Week has learned. It has also emerged that the Department for Education is already considering expanding the institute’s recruitment targets for […]

DfE extends Institute of Teaching’s remit to 6 years with £121m contract

The government’s new Institute of Teaching will run for at least six years with £121 million on offer to a potential contractor for the scheme. Plans for the new institution were announced earlier this year. Once at capacity, the government expects it to train 1,000 initial teacher training trainees, 2,000 early career teachers, 2,000 mentors […]

New Institute of Teaching sparks warning of the ‘Gibb-isation of education’

The new government-funded Institute of Teaching has been branded as another example of the “Gibb-isation of education”. The Department for Education announced on Saturday that it would establish a new provider to deliver initial teacher training, the government’s early career framework for new teachers and national professional qualifications for more experienced staff. The institute, which […]

DfE to establish new ‘Institute of Teaching’ to train up to 1,000 teachers a year

The government will establish a new Institute of Teaching to train up to 1,000 new teachers each year, with an emphasis on a knowledge-based curriculum and “high standards of pupil behaviour”. The organisation, which will get some of the £22 million allocated for improving teacher quality at the last spending review, will begin offering initial […]