EDUCATION OF TEACHERS IN BRITAIN

That this House believes that British teacher education is amongst the best in the world; notes that teacher education forms a very significant part of UK higher education; supports undergraduate teaching degrees being delivered through the current partnership approach between higher education institutions and schools; would resist any attempts to move postgraduate or undergraduate teacher training wholly or mainly away from a higher education setting, given that to do so would lead to disintegration anda loss of accountability and quality, would provide an unwelcome administrative and managerial burden on schools and would constitute a severe blow to many excellent higher education institutions; and calls on the Government to maintain a partnership approach when it publishes its anticipated White Paper.