Providing initial teacher education

Guidance and services

• Initial Teacher Education COVID-19 response: supporting AY21/22 ITE School Experience to achieve QTS Grant Scheme: guidance for providers
  This scheme is available to eligible students undertaking accredited initial teacher education (ITE) programme in academic year 2021/22 in Wales that leads to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
• Initial Teacher Education COVID-19 response: supporting AY21/22 ITE School Experience to achieve QTS Grant Scheme: privacy notice
  What we do with the related information that we receive.
• Initial teacher education programmes: accreditation criteria
  Since September 2019 ITE programmes have to meet accreditation criteria.
• Initial teacher education (ITE) standards
  Professional standards needed to qualify as a teacher for ITE.
• Initial Teacher Education (ITE) priority subject incentive: guidance for ITE Partnerships and Education Workforce Council 2022 to 2024
  Guidelines on eligibility and how to apply for the grant.
• Initial Teacher Education priority subject incentives: guidance for providers 2021 and previous years
  Guidance on eligibility and how to apply for the grant. This guidance supports academic years 2020 to 2021 and 2021 to 2022.
• Initial Teacher Education priority subject incentives: privacy notice
  What we do with the related information that we receive.
• Iaith Athrawon Yfory Incentive Scheme: guidance for providers
  The Iaith Athrawon Yfory Incentive Scheme is available to students studying an accredited secondary postgraduate Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programme enabling them to teach through the medium of Welsh or Welsh as a subject, leading to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
• Ethnic Minority Initial Teacher Education (ITE) Incentive guidance for ITE Partnerships and the EWC
  Explains roles and responsibilities when assessing students for the Ethnic Minority ITE incentive.
• Teacher training incentives: guidance for training providers (2020 to 2021 academic year)
  Details of the incentives available, who is eligible and the management of payments.
• Teacher training incentives: guidance for training providers (2019 to 2020 academic year)
  Details of the incentives available, who is eligible and the management of payments.
• Quality enhancement tool: guidance
  Guidance on tools to improve the quality of initial teacher education.
• Teacher training incentives: PGCE (FE) students
  Guidance on eligibility and how to apply for the incentive: academic year 2022 to 2023.
• Initial Teacher Education COVID-19 mitigation guidance March 2022
  Letter to heads of Initial Teacher Education Partnerships regarding academic year 2021 to 2022 and 2022 to 2023.
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): additional temporary guidance for Initial Teacher Education (ITE) partnerships January 2021
  This guidance is for Initial Teacher Education (ITE) partnerships and is based on existing UK advice related to the Coronavirus pandemic. We are working closely with the other UK governments to ensure a consistent, public health-led approach to the Coronavirus situation.
• Coronavirus (COVID-19): temporary guidance for Initial Teacher Education (ITE) partnerships 2020
  Guidance for ITE providers who are supporting students on accredited programmes during the coronavirus pandemic.
• Salaried Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE)
  Requirements for providers of the salaried PGCE scheme and funding opportunities.
• Initial Teacher Education (ITE) Priority Subject Incentive: guidance for ITE Partnerships and Education Workforce Council 2023 to 2024
  Guidance for ITE Partnerships and the Education Workforce Council (EWC) to support the delivery of the ITE priority subject Incentive from September 2023.
• Iaith Athrawon Yfory Incentive Scheme: guidance ITE partnerships and the EWC 2023 to 2024
  Guidance for Initial Teacher Education (ITE) partnerships and the Education Workforce Council (EWC) to support the delivery of the Iaith Athrawon Yfory Incentive from September 2023.
• Ethnic Minority Initial Teacher Education (ITE) Scheme: guidance for ITE partnerships and the EWC 2023 to 2024
  Guidance for ITE partnerships and the Education Workforce Council (EWC). Guidance to support the delivery of the Ethnic Minority ITE Incentive from September 2023.

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• Criteria for accreditation of initial teacher education programmes in Wales: integrated impact assessment 2022 to 2023
  Impact assessment
  Assessment of the impact of refreshing the criteria for accreditation.
• Criteria for accreditation of initial teacher education programmes in Wales: children’s rights impact assessment 2022 to 2023
  Impact assessment
  Assessment of the impact of refreshing the criteria for accreditation on children’s rights.
• Initial teacher education Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic recruitment plan
  Policy and strategy
  This plan focuses on what can be done to support increasing recruitment onto Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programmes.
• Review of initial teacher training 2015: teaching tomorrow’s teachers
  Report
  Professor Furlong’s review, with recommendations on how to raise the standards of initial teacher training.
• Review of initial teacher training (ITT) 2013 by Professor Ralph Tabberer
  Report
  A review of how to improve ITT with further recommendations following Professor Furlong's review in 2006.
• Review of initial teacher training 2013: summary in relation to international benchmarks
  Report
  A comparison of the situation in Wales in relation to international quality benchmarks.
• Review of initial teacher training 2013: government response
  Report
  Our response to recommendations from Professor Ralph Tabberer on raising standards of initial teacher training provision.
• The Education (Induction Arrangements for School Teachers) (Wales) (Amendment) (Coronavirus) Regulations 2020
  Legislation
  Under these Regulations the induction period for new school teachers can be reduced and can include periods of professional learning.
• Initial teacher education (ITE): work to support the refreshing of the criteria for accreditation 2022 to 2023
  Policy and strategy
  Refreshing the criteria for accreditation to raise ITE standards.
• Employment-based Teacher Training Scheme 2019 (2019 No.3)
  Legislation
  The scheme sets out the scope of the Graduate Teacher Programme, the Additional Training Graduate Programme and the Registered Teacher Programme and details the eligibility requirements for people wishing to take an employment-based route into teaching.