Initial teacher training briefings

Initial teacher training briefing - 17 October 2013 (PDF)

Universities' are concerned about the impact of the next round of initial teacher training allocations on their ability to sustain teacher training provision. This includes the ability to sustain support for schools-led routes such as the School Direct programme.

Universities UK calls to government to:

• ensure sufficient core allocation is granted to universities to enable them to sustain provision, including the support that they offer to School Direct partnerships 
• provide a greater degree of security to universities as to core allocation in future years, to enable them to plan and invest for the future 
• make it easier to transfer unfilled allocation between different routes to ensure good candidates are not turned away

Initial teacher training briefing - 7 November 2013 (PDF)

While demand for teachers is rising, the government has announced a 15% cut in the number of teacher training places allocated to universities for 2014–15. Universities are concerned that these cuts will make it difficult to sustain teacher training provision, including their capacity to support school-led routes such as the School Direct programme, and lead to teacher shortages in the future.