Guidance & resources
- DfE New Guidance Assessment Only Route to QTS (October 2026)
- New guidance on the Assessment Only route to QTS published by the DfE (October 2026).
- HomeOffice: International ITT trainees – questions around visas
- A summary of answers from the Home Office around recent questions from international ITT trainees, visas and their families. The questions have been anonymised.
- UCET's response to the Ofsted consultation
- A copy of UCET's response to the Ofsted consultation in March 2025.
- USCET Cymru report: Moving the Discourse from Problems to Possibilities
- Seeing ITE as a policy problem within a 'discourse of inadequacy' (Mutton and Burn, 2020) is unlikely to build confidence and efficacy within the sector. However, reframing the narrative by identifying positive practices and promising ideas in ITE affords the opportunity to build a shared vision and national strategy among those who are key to realising the Welsh Government's ambition for a high-qualityh teaching profession (USCET Cymru, 2024)
- USCET Evidence into Parliamentary Inquiry into Teacher Recruitment and Retention
- USCET members are responsible for the initial teacher education (ITE) of all new domestically-qualified teachers in Wales, as well as delivering high-quality CPD programmes (often at master’s level), engaging in ground-breaking education research and playing a pivotal role in the work of their local communities and breaking down barriers to participation in higher education.
UCET Key Documents
- Intellectual Base of Teacher Education report
- iQTS Consultation Response
- UCET's response to the International Qualified Teacher Status.
- Sustainability and Climate Change Education in Teacher Education: a survey report
- Prepared by the Sustainability and Climate Change Working Group of the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET) Authors: Paul Vare, Tremaine Baker, Phil Bamber, Lee Jowett, Alison Kitson, Elena Lengthorn, Jo Anna Reed Johnson, Adam Simcock, Sophie Wilson, Jenny Wynn.
- UCET cross-fora joint symposium (3rd March 2026)
- Resources from the joint symposium held in person at the University of Wolverhampton on 3rd March 2026.
- UCET Northern Ireland: Independent Review of Education report
- The importance of teachers has been long-recognised as central not only to the educational and personal development of children, but also to societal wellbeing and economic growth (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD], 2005, 2018; Larsen, 2010). The OECD goes so far as to say that, ‘the quality of an education system depends on the quality of its teachers’ (2018:20). It follows therefore that the knowledge, processes and practices of initial and continuing professional learning are fundamental in ensuring the highest quality teachers are in place to meet these individual and societal aspirations.
- Universities who offer PGCE qualifications in partnership with SCITTs
- A database of UCET members who offer PGCE provision they offer in partnership with SCITTs.
- USCET Cymru: Initial Teacher Education in Wales: contributing to the National Mission
- In 2015, Professor Furlong’s review, Teaching Tomorrow’s Teachers, set out an ambitious vision for high-quality initial teacher education (ITE), later encapsulated in the new Criteria for the Accreditation of ITE in Wales. Since then, seven higher education institutions (HEI) in Wales have embraced a close school-HEI partnership model of ITE, with knowledge gained from research, scholarship and practice at the heart of the preparation of new teachers, and which prepares them to realise the Curriculum for Wales.
OFSTED
- Ofsted: Risk assessment methodology: initial teacher education
- The risk assessment process that Ofsted uses to assist in scheduling inspections of initial teacher education (ITE) providers.
General
- Anti-Racism ITE/T framework
- This framework was developed through a research project commissioned by the NEU and supported by internal funding from Newcastle University. The project was led by Professor Heather J Smith (PI, Newcastle University) and Professor Vini Lander (Co-I, Leeds Beckett University) with research support provided by Marsha Garratt.
- FE ITE reforms summary: legal requirements for providers for AY2026/2027
- If you are an education provider in England planning to offer one or more courses of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) for the Further Education (FE) sector, you will need to take action to meet new legal requirements for the academic year 2026 to 2027. What you need to know and do.
- ITT External Examiner Review Checklist