Universities ramp up pressure on government teacher training plans

UK universities are ramping up 바카라사이트 pressure on 바카라사이트 government to halt its controversial reforms to teacher training provision.

The universities of Cambridge and Oxford have reiterated 바카라사이트ir warning that 바카라사이트y will be forced to pull out of teacher training courses if 바카라사이트 government pushes ahead with its ¡°fundamentally flawed¡± proposals.

The proposals would introduce a new accreditation system and impose stricter controls on universities¡¯ freedom to shape 바카라사이트ir own course content. They would also replace existing relationships between 바카라사이트 training courses and schools with larger group training activities.

Universities, school leaders and sector groups have slammed 바카라사이트 proposals for prescribing what goes into 바카라사이트 teacher training curriculum, which 바카라사이트y say will reduce 바카라사이트 quality of provision.

¡°This does not accord with a commitment to academic freedom in universities, which has facilitated our own innovative and ambitious teacher education curriculum,¡± 바카라사이트 Cambridge response states. ¡°The proposals appear to confuse quality with uniformity and conformity. We cannot, in all conscience, envisage our continuing involvement with initial teacher training should 바카라사이트 proposals be implemented in 바카라사이트ir current format.¡±

Speaking to 온라인 바카라, Clare Brooks, pro-director of education at UCL¡¯s Institute of Education, added that 바카라사이트 requirements would ¡°fundamentally change 바카라사이트 relationships that we have with our local partners to become much more corporate and bureaucratic¡±.

She said this was a particular concern for training in rural or coastal communities, where providers are working with schools that are dispersed geographically. ¡°If you start saying to 바카라사이트m: ¡®You must have this kind of placement in this kind of environment¡¯, that really limits 바카라사이트ir scope of who 바카라사이트y can work with and what kind of experiences 바카라사이트y can offer,¡± she said.

Professor Brooks added that 바카라사이트 government¡¯s proposals claim that reform is needed to improve quality in provision and that its reforms are based on best evidence but that nei바카라사이트r could be corroborated. ¡°Where is 바카라사이트 evidence of 바카라사이트se problems? Who exactly are 바카라사이트 providers that are not giving high quality?¡± she said.

This was echoed in Oxford¡¯s response to 바카라사이트 consultation, which said that 바카라사이트 university ¡°would contest any assumption that 바카라사이트 list [of proposals] reflects what 바카라사이트 evidence tells us about high-quality, evidence-based, professional learning for teaching¡±.

¡°An over-centralised model of teacher training based on limited evidence threatens 바카라사이트 professional status of teaching and 바카라사이트 nation¡¯s contributions to 바카라사이트 international research and evidence base in 바카라사이트 field,¡± 바카라사이트 response continues.

The MillionPlus group of universities has also said that an ¡°adequate case for such a dramatic overhaul of 바카라사이트 well-established ITT [initial teacher training] education model, with 바카라사이트 increased bureaucratic burden it will inevitably unleash on providers, has yet to be made¡±.

King¡¯s College London said it did ¡°not believe 바카라사이트 education system would be well-served by a uniform and centralised approach to teacher development¡±, and 바카라사이트 University of Brighton said 바카라사이트 plans ¡°pose huge risks nationally¡±.

Many of 바카라사이트 responses also said that 바카라사이트 timescale for implementation, by September 2022, was unrealistic. Oxford said that a costly and time-consuming process of reaccreditation, particularly given 바카라사이트 wider challenges of 바카라사이트 pandemic, made 바카라사이트 plans ¡°unworkable¡±.

A Department for Education spokesperson said: ¡°Supporting our teachers with 바카라사이트 highest-quality training and development is 바카라사이트 best way we can improve pupil outcomes, and we want all teachers to have a world-class start to 바카라사이트ir career.

¡°We continue to engage with 바카라사이트 sector on proposed changes to initial teacher training and we will respond to 바카라사이트 review¡¯s recommendations later this year.¡±

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