The DfE says that it is so overwhelmed by dealing with the virus and the problems associated with GCSE and A level exams (ie the lack of them) that it cannot find the time to decide whether to allow the proposal to allow a GCSE in Natural History to go on to the next stage.<\/p>\n
Odd, then, that it has the time to fast track a move to shift teacher education \/ training [ITE] provision out of the HE sector and into schools. \u00a0In an article for\u00a0The Conversation<\/a><\/em>\u00a0Matthew Clarke <\/span>and <\/span>Keither Parker from<\/span>\u00a0the School of Education at York St John University explore what's going on.<\/p>\n In July, DfE published the ITT market review report<\/a>\u00a0and the brief public consultation on its recommendations is now\u00a0almost over<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0Clarke <\/span>and<\/span>\u00a0Parker note that t<\/span>he\u00a0review<\/a> continues \"a decade-long trend, shifting the responsibility for ITE away from universities and towards schools<\/em>.\" \u00a0In a high stakes move, the University of Cambridge is vowing to quit the ITE business if the changes are implemented. \u00a0It said (I quote from The Times<\/a>):<\/p>\n \"The proposals appear to confuse quality with uniformity and conformity. \u00a0We cannot ... envisage our continuing involvement with ITT [initial teacher training] should they be implemented in their current format<\/em>. ... The underlying assumption that teaching is merely a set of skills, and that every trainee should concentrate on the same skills regardless of past experience, subject or phase, is completely flawed.<\/em>\"<\/p>\n Arguably, this is the logical end point from a process that began in the 1990s when the first HE\/schools partnership programmes were devised following DfE (or whatever it was called then) instructions. \u00a0In these, students spent much more time in schools than previously and money was given to schools by the university to fund this. \u00a0I helped to devise the rather good (I thought) Bath partnership programme. \u00a0This was a collaboration that brought school and HE expertise together. \u00a0This is not what is now being proposed.<\/p>\n One thing would seem pellucidly clear, the DfE's grand plan, when implemented, will have no room for any consideration of environmental education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The DfE says that it is so overwhelmed by dealing with the virus and the problems associated with GCSE and A level exams (ie the lack of them) that it cannot find the time to decide whether to allow the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}