DfE: New ITT criteria 2024/2025 (February 2024)

16 February 2024

The full criteria and supporting advice can be found here: Initial teacher training (ITT): criteria and supporting advice - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Some changes include:

• Fee charging arrangements (p.6f) – changed to reflect that DfE now sets fees for all postgraduate ITT, rather than fees for Office for Students (OfS) registered providers being set by existing Fee Limit Regulations (2018) – as previously notified.
• Degree criteria (p.11) – update to footnote
• Other background checks (p.17) – update to description of links for documents
• Recruitment practices (p.19) – removal of reference to suitability checks, for clarity
• ITAP (p.24) – clarification on ITAP in placement schools
• C2.5 Mentoring (pp.31-33) – changes to emphasise flexibility to reduce mentor training hours to account for prior learning, including additional footnote on minimum time allocations table
• C2.6 Assessment (p.33) – change to title of section
• All hyperlinks in the document have been checked – expired/broken hyperlinks have been replaced or updated.