Friday 4 March 2011

Parity established between QTLS and QTS

Something to brighten up gloomy late winter days. The Wolf Report on 14-19 vocational education includes among many other welcome recommendations, one that QTLS be accepted as a full qualification for teaching in schools, just as QTS is accepted in FE. Not only that but the recommendation has been accepted immediately; as the press release indicates:


Mr Gove said Prof Wolf’s report was "brilliant and ground-breaking”. He immediately accepted four recommendations:
  • To allow qualified further education lecturers to teach in school classrooms on the same basis as qualified school teachers....