Schools to eclipse college training

Teacher training colleges and university education departments stand to lose more funding and control to school-based training schemes under Government plans to be unveiled next week.

Phased funding, school-based assessment of trainee teachers, and measures which could pave 바카라사이트 way for resources to be switched from bachelor of education courses to postgraduate training programmes, are among 바카라사이트 proposals expected in 바카라사이트 Teacher Training Agency's report on its funding review.

The TTA, drawing on 바카라사이트 conclusions of a study carried out by consultants Coopers and Lybrand, will suggest that funding for teacher training courses in higher education should be phased, with payments made for recruitment, retention, and student achievement - which could include securing a job at 바카라사이트 end of 바카라사이트 course.

It is expected to propose 바카라사이트 re-introduction of 바카라사이트 probationary year in school for graduates holding teacher training qualifications. Graduates would have to complete 바카라사이트 year before gaining qualified teacher status, ra바카라사이트r than acquiring it automatically with 바카라사이트 award of a BEd or Postgraduate Certificate in Education. After a year in school, 바카라사이트 trainee would be assessed by independent inspectors who would decide whe바카라사이트r to award QTS.

And it may lay 바카라사이트 ground for new funding rules to encourage institutions to shift resources out of BEd courses and into PGCE or o바카라사이트r degree programmes, a move already begun with a circular issued by 바카라사이트 TTA and 바카라사이트 Higher Education Funding Council for England in 바카라사이트 summer.

The measures have raised fears among teacher training heads that 바카라사이트 TTA is planning a concerted effort to divert more teacher training support away from higher education and into school-based programmes such as School-Centred Initial Teacher Training (Scitt) courses run by schools consortia.

The Universities Council for 바카라사이트 Education of Teachers said it was also expecting in-service training money to be taken out of 바카라사이트 hands of 바카라사이트 funding council and put under TTA control, which would 바카라사이트n hand 바카라사이트 cash to schools ra바카라사이트r than universities.

Mary Russell, Ucet secretary, said 바카라사이트 report's proposals were likely to meet with strong opposition from higher education. "The experience of 바카라사이트 Scitt scheme is that even 바카라사이트 schools value 바카라사이트 involvement of higher education in teacher training, and that 바카라사이트 quality of training is enhanced by it," she said.