It also estimates that Labour's plan to require all teachers to
gain qualified teacher status would cost # 386m over five years.
The Teaching Apprenticeship Programme (TAP) provides a fee - free, salaried route for graduates to enter the Teaching profession and
gain Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) within 1 year.
Apprentice teachers will complete their end - point assessment in their fourth term, after three terms
gaining qualified teacher status.
Despite a dramatic fall in the number of people
gaining qualified teacher status through a course at a higher education institution, it is still the most popular route.
Not exact matches
According to the statistical data, only 11 per cent of
teachers who
gained a
qualified status (QTS) in the 2013 - 14 academic year were not in a teaching job 6 months later.
At the moment, a trainee
teacher must meet 33 standards in order to
gain «
qualified teacher status» (QTS) and only two of these relate explicitly to skills on how to teach effectively.
The latest initial
teacher training statistics show that almost nine out of ten trainees who
gain qualified status (QTS) are in a teaching job six months later — only 11 per cent of those who
gained QTS in the 2013 - 14 academic year were not.
The number of
teachers gaining qualified status (QTS) through an «assessment - only» route — involving about four hours of lesson observation and no further training — has more than...