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Written question asked by Nicholas Dakin (Labour) on Wednesday, 11 December 2013, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 16 December 2013. It was answered by David Laws (Liberal Democrat) on Monday, 16 December 2013 on behalf of the Department for Education.

Teachers: Training

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Education whether it is possible for a school to bid for and be allocated to a School Direct place for a physics trainee teacher without having a trained physics teacher as a member of staff.

Answer

It is not a criterion for initial teacher training (ITT) allocations that there must be a particular type of teacher employed in a School Direct lead school.

The criteria for School Direct allocations1 stipulate that

‘partnerships must satisfy themselves that schools have the capacity to undertake their responsibilities'.

ITT is inspected against the relevant Ofsted framework2, which includes the criterion that trainees should benefit from subject and phase specific mentoring by experienced and expert mentors. A trainee in a School Direct school without a trained physics teacher could receive such training and mentoring from the lead school in the partnership, from another school within the partnership or from the accredited ITT provider.1https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/210975/School_Direct_allocations_methodology_2014_to_2015.pdf2http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/initial-teacher-education-inspection-handbook

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
180168; 572 cc472-3W
Session
2013-14
Subjects
Teachers Training Physics
Link
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