Million Plus

High quality and plentiful placement opportunities across the entire country is the ambition of the entire sector. Unlocking this capacity will do more to make a material different to ITE than any review or marketing campaign.

Alongside strengthening England’s ability to recruit and retain teachers, the work that can be accomplished through effective partnerships across every region of the country can unlock the many additional benefits highlighted in this report.

We believe the government should:

• Seek to ensure that engaging with ITE, and its many benefits, is viewed as a core part of what schools do.
• Promote ways to better recognise the value of mentoring.
• Generate more and better data on placements across England.
• Focus more on practical work to boost placements and less on unnecessary and unhelpful structural reform.
• Increase funding to help more schools engage with ITE and build successful partnerships.

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