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Strengthening QTS_PressRelease (Feb 2018)

QTS Consultation Response

This year’s UCET annual conference will take place on 6-7 November at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Stratford- upon-Avon. Formal registration will open later in the year. In the meantime please put the dates in your diary now.  If you are interested in leading a workshop at the conference please contact j.noble-rogers@ucet.ac.uk. Workshops last for one hour and can be on any issues relating to teacher education or education research.

The latest bulletin from NCTL is available below: Teacher Recruitment Bulletin_February 2018  

AAETP, the Association of Accredited Education Teacher Partnerships Ltd., is a company that has been established jointly by UCET and NASBTT (National Association of School-Based Teacher Trainers) to oversee the end point assessment process for QTS apprenticeships. AAETP has now been formally incorporated.  

The Chartered College of Teaching is the professional body for teachers and leaders across all phases and settings. The mission of the Chartered College to enhance teachers’ expertise through collaboration, access to high quality professional learning, career pathways and research is vitally important. The CCT is asking if members can encourage their student teachers to join the CCT free of charge, even if they have placements for September 2018.

Facilitators:   Kim Francis, ITT Consultant  &  Bea Noble-Rogers, ITT Consultant   Following the launch of the third edition of the Training and Assessment Toolkit in December 2017, the purpose of this workshop is to provide an opportunity to take stock of where we are, as providers of ITT, in terms of securing consistently accurate assessment of trainee teachers’ progress linked to the impact they have on pupils’ learning and progress over time.

DfE QTS Consultation_Letter to UCET_15.12.2017 The link below is to the whole consultation document from DFE on proposals to strengthen QTS: https://consult.education.gov.uk/teaching-profession-unit/strengthening-qts-and-improving-career-progression/   These changes will impact on those recruited to ITE programmes from September 2019. Please see the reference in the letter about wording that might be included in prospectuses. The detail of what is proposed is still being examined.