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- ICET 2019 ReportUCET's report of the 63rd ICET World Assembly in Johannesburg, South Africa
- The Bristol Guide and the Document Summary Service: 10% discount for UCET membersTwo ‘must-haves’ from the University of Bristol’s School of Education: The Bristol Guide and the Document Summary Service
- Chartered College of Teaching: early career teaching membership package offerThe CCT's ambition is to support all new entrants to the profession, The resources offered through their membership will be useful to those who are planning to bid for the Early Career Framework; as well as access to the world’s largest research database, their own research journal, Impact, they are also producing research digests, reading lists and video resources aligned to the early career framework for release over the next year. They have therefore put together a membership package offer for potential ECF providers who may wish to include this in their bid. This costs just £50 per year per early career teacher, and includes membership for them AND for their mentor. It also includes free memberships for members of providers' design and delivery team, who are also provided early access to their resources to enable them to build them in to their programme.
- UCET Summer Newsletter 2019
- DfE: Teacher Recruitment Bulletin (July 2019)
- Teacher Misconduct Unit: recruitment open for new panellistsThe Secretary of State for Education has announced his intention to appoint new panellists to the Teaching Regulation Agency - Professional Conduct Panels.
- UCET position paper: Building Research Informed Teacher Education Communities (July 2019)This paper builds on the BERA-RSA (2014) review, to set out the position of UCET, which is to affirm teaching as an intellectual activity, in which research and researching enhances teachers’ capacity to make a positive and enduring difference to the lives of the children and young people with whom they work. The primary audience for this paper is the community of teacher educators and teacher education leaders and managers working in our university, school, college and Early Years’ settings. The paper will also have resonance for those with strategic interest in teacher education such as University leaders, Head Teachers and policy-makers.
- DBS guidance for ITT trainees (updated June 2019)
- DfE: ITT 2020 RecruitmentInformation on requesting permission to recruit to unlimited courses and requesting places in allocated courses. Deadline: 12th July 2019.
- Letter to David Hughes, Chief Executive of the Association of Colleges (24 June 2019)
- UCET Northern Ireland Report: Teacher Professional Learning Framework Project
- FliTEA platform for all those involved in ITE to find resources and develop their practice.
- NFER Research Report: part-time teaching and flexible working in secondary schoolsAttracting and retaining enough secondary teachers is a key challenge facing school leaders today. Providing more opportunities for part-time and flexible working may provide part of the answer. Building on our previous research into teacher retention, which identified an unmet demand from secondary teachers for part-time and flexible working, this new report provides insights into the barriers and discovers how some schools with high levels of part-time teachers are making it work. Using these insights, the report also makes recommendations for policymakers and school leaders.
- Teacher Recruitment BulletinWelcome to the June 2019 edition of the Teacher Recruitment Bulletin, which contains vital information to support your recruitment of ITT trainees and teachers. This month, please also refer to the letter from Minister Gibb issued to all ITT providers and School Direct lead schools on 6 June 2019. Your colleagues can subscribe to this bulletin by emailing: teacher.recruitmentbulletin@education.gov.uk.
- Education and Training Foundation: May/June newsletter
- Cognition Education: government funded work placement programmeCognition Education is delivering a government funded work placement programme, aimed at providing final year undergraduates and students studying for a postgraduate qualification with a paid 40-hour work experience placement in a Further Education setting.
- DfE: Teacher Recruitment Bulletin (May 2019)
- OFSTED Letter to Partnerships (May 2019)
- MillionPlus & UCET: the Recruitment and Retention Strategy and the ECF
- UCET Easter Newsletter 2019
- Ofsted Letter: ITE inspection handbook changes (for April 2019)
- Why ITE providers should be delivering the Early Career Framework
- DfE: Teacher Recruitment Bulletin (March 2019)
- TEAN: March 2019 Bulletin
- Education Endowment Foundation: new initiatives to improve teacher education
- NFER Annual Report: the Teacher Labour Market in England (February 2019)
- Joint Letter to Secretary of State, Damian Hinds MP (February 2019)
- DFE: ‘Becoming a Teacher’ digital services
- OFSTED: Consultation on proposals for changes to the education inspection framework
- UCET Press Release: new DFE Recruitment and Retention strategy
- DfE Teacher Recruitment Bulletin (January 2019)
- DfE: TSM data 2019/2020
- Bursary Funding for ITE 2019/2020
- Easier Access to Quality CPD for teachers while saving the taxpayer money? JNR BERA blog