ITE secondary committee: 22
November 2016
Management Forum: 29
November 2016
ITE POLICY UPDATE
Key policy issues
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ITE allocation methodology
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Actual 2017/18 allocations and issues raised
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Centres of Excellence
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Review of QTS
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Apprenticeship routes into teaching
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Schools that work consultation, and HE sponsoring of schools
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Developments in Wales
ITE allocations methodology
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Hybrid model, tending towards allocations
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Three categories:
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Traditional allocations (primary, history, PE & drama)
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Hybrid (art & design, biology, chemistry, English & music)
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Open recruitment (business, maths, physics, computing, D&T, geography, MFL,
RE & ‘other’)
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Three years allocations (25 HEI, 29 SCITT), more to follow (XX pre and XX
post 1992)
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Centres of Excellence on hold (qualitative bidding process?)
Feedback from sector
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Unviable core allocations (e.g. PE), partly due to request for identification
of minimum viability
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Reduced SD allocations (one-third lower than requested in some cases)
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SD allocations not apportioned across partner provider
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Forward planning for those with annual allocations
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Impact of degree classification metric on shortage subject providers?
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Timeliness of OFSTED data?
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Use of inaccurate employment data
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Tight turnaround
That said,
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Better than recruitment control process and allocations methodology prerecruitment controls
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NCTL and Gibb acknowledge shortcomings of RCs
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NCTL acknowledge HEI/SL distinction out of data (UCET)
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Response in part of UCET pressure (e.g. survey, media activity, letters to
NCTL, discussions with ministers, behind door discussion)
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Possible end to SD agenda
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Stated wish to stability
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Expansion in numbers receiving three-year allocations
Open allocations?
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TSM not accurate (primary/English), although still needed for broad
monitoring purposes
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Partnerships better at judging supply needs that Whitehall statisticians,
although need to ensure national needs met as well
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Constraints already exist within the system to prevent mass overrecruitment:
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Capacity on schools
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Employability, OFSTED etc
Public expenditure implications limited (low bursaries for relevant subjects,
rationing as in FE; primary UG, PG should be treated same as UG generally)
Review of QTS
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September 2018 at very, very earliest
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Possible parallel pathways for PG and UG
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Issues identified by UCET: goods & services; EPD entitlement; consistency &
independence of judgments; role for ITE providers
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Need to address ITE/EPD continuum and EPD needs explicitly
acknowledged by NCTL
Apprenticeship route
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Expression of interested submitted to ministers and subject to consultation
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UCET’s response:
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Doubt need for another route (confusing for applicants)
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If goes ahead, must be subject to existing regulatory & QA regime (confirmed
by NCTL)
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HEIs must be potential partners with scope to link programmes to academic
awards (
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Teaching’s status as graduate profession must be protected
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Next step to develop standard, consistent with Teaching standards
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Issues: additionality; level 7 and qualification link; starting ages of participants
Schools White paper
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Universities must open new schools/support academies to charge higher
fees
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UCET view:
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Universities already support schools on many ways (ITE, CPD, widening access,
NQT support, research etc)
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Fragmentation of ITE undermines such collaboration
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Coercing HEIs in the ways suggested to divert resources away from existing
collaborations and leave some schools out in the cold
Position not clear on UTC sponsorship
Cymru
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Consultation on the accreditation of partnerships
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Two year PGCEs
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Four year undergraduate programmes
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Universities and Schools Council for the Accreditation of Teachers (USCET)
Questions and comments?