Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what account is taken of the likely impact on the future viability of existing higher education institutions and school-centred initial teacher training organisations when accrediting new initial teacher training providers.

The viability of providers is considered as part of the initial teacher training (ITT) allocations process which is underpinned by the allocations methodology and informed by the Teacher Supply Model.

The accreditation process was established to allow potential new providers to demonstrate in a proposal to the National College for Teaching and Leadership how its provision from the outset is likely to be at least good according to Ofsted, and how it will meet all the Secretary of State for Education’s ITT criteria.[1]

[1] www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-criteria