Teacher Education: Arts, Crafts and Design Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Teacher Education: Arts, Crafts and Design

Lord Addington Excerpts
Tuesday 28th November 2017

(6 years, 7 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Agnew of Oulton Portrait Lord Agnew of Oulton
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My Lords, we have put particular emphasis on technical skills with the announcement of our T-level programme, which will begin in two years’ time. By 2020, we will be spending an additional half billion pounds a year on technical education.

Lord Addington Portrait Lord Addington (LD)
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My Lords, if somebody receives their training in a classroom-based situation, how will they receive the extra tuition required to teach design, art and crafts unless they are in those classrooms? The Minister is not addressing that.

Lord Agnew of Oulton Portrait Lord Agnew of Oulton
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My Lords, in 2014 we asked Sir Andrew Carter to chair an independent review of the quality of ITT courses. Following on from that we have issued three reports in our efforts to improve the framework. We have the framework on the core content of ITT, new behaviour management content and national standards for school-based ITT mentors.