1.  Conservative Manifesto  Ambitions for school system reform: change in the centre of gravity; decentralised improvement driven by schools – outstanding schools, teachers and HTs – not the centre  Changed funding for HE: fees going up; how keen will people be to go to university? What will their expectations be when they get there?  ‘Fiscal constraint’: no money  Curriculum in schools: what’s important and what’s not so important  Importance of subject teaching and subject knowledge: secondary and primary  Importance of high quality provision  How can change be introduced without putting the teaching supply at risk? ITT National Context

2.  Bursary levels for shortage subject and for high quality graduates: the positioning of the teaching profession as one which the best quality graduates would want to join’ ( new career structures for ‘Master Teachers’.  Toughened up entry requirements  Greater role for schools: SCITTS, Teaching Schools, Schools Direct  Specialism in maths and science and MTL in primary encouraged  Re frame GTP for career changers who will want to be employed while they train.

3.  New OfSTED Inspection framework for ITT providers. Can only be outstanding if partnership working is outstanding  Importance of ‘Deep Partnership’ with measurable impacts of pupil achievement.

4. School Direct Strategic Direction  Overall increase in the number of places allocated to schools  Particular focus on increasing places allocated to primary schools  Continued focus on quality  Maintain the proportion of partnerships led by outstanding schools  Increase schools’ confidence and ability to commission and deliver, in partnership with ITT providers, teacher training that fully meets their needs  Government want to:  Expand existing School Direct partnerships/alliances  Increase awareness of School Direct with all schools and providers not yet involved  Help build large, sustainable school partnerships  Attract primary schools not yet involved in School Direct to become involved, particularly outstanding primary schools

5. Current activity  Letter from Charlie Taylor to Teaching Schools asking them to increase their School Direct capacity through ‘affiliate schools’  Letter to outstanding lead schools asking them to expand their partnerships  Work with academy chains

6. SD Registration for 2014  From 25 February schools register interest in School Direct places for 2014  A pre-requisite stage for all schools and to ask whether  they are registering places on behalf of a wider partnership  as a lead school  or to join a partnership of schools  Schools will be put on a mailing list and sent log in details to request School Direct places  Requests for places from June to September with decisions by end of October  Portal opens for applications in November

7. University  Validate and award academic qualification /QTS designed with schools  QA programmes  Lead practice based research  Develop and provide ‘consultant level’ expertise in subjects, phases and pedagogy Groups/Alliances of Schools  Assess requirement for new teachers across the Alliance  Commission HEI as partner in training programme  Create capacity to deliver high quality ITT  Bid for and receive ‘School Direct’ places  Recruit high quality graduates  Deploy outstanding teachers to demonstrate excellent practice and mentor across schools in the alliance Joint appointments, clinical professors, ITT resources matched to relative contributions