Teaching At Derby Gets Another Glowing Report
25 April 2012
This latest Ofsted recognition is testament to the hard work and dedication of our academic team.
We are delighted to be able to share this news with all the partner colleges and schools who work with us so closely to bring out the best in our trainees.
”Chris Warren, the Head of the University of Derby's School of Education
Two of the University of Derby's teaching courses have received glowing reports from Ofsted (the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills) after recent inspections, upholding its excellent reputation for teacher training.
The University's Graduate Teacher Programme (GTP) and qualification in Teaching in the Life
long Learning Sector (TLLS) programmes have been judged 'outstanding' across a number of their elements. The gradings, just given, follow inspections undertaken in February this year.
Its Graduate Teacher Programme is an employment-based route for university graduates of various subjects who wish to go on to teach in schools.
By working in schools across the East Midlands while studying at Derby, 34 primary and 18 secondary trainees become qualified teachers each year. This teaching programme was judged to be 'outstanding' in its capacity to improve further and/or sustain high quality, and 'good' for its overall effectiveness - with four out of six of these elements judged to be 'outstanding'.
The Ofsted report said: "Key strengths are: high completion and employment rates resulting from the outstanding recruitment and selection process, the good quality of the flexible and personalised training and the highly effective partnership with schools; and the excellent quality of personal, professional and academic support."
The University of Derby's Teaching in the Lifelong Learning Sector programmes inspected by Ofsted also received a 'good' result with outstanding elements for its overall effectiveness, and good for its capacity to improve further and/or sustain high quality.
Through these programmes students can become teachers, trainers or tutors in further education colleges, adult and community learning centres, workplaces, training provider centres, prisons or public services.
Its Ofsted report stated: "Key strengths are: the very rapid development of professional attributes amongst trainees; the outstanding training and assessment which results in trainees being highly reflective of practice."
Chris Warren, the Head of the University of Derby's School of Education, said: "This latest Ofsted recognition is testament to the hard work and dedication of our academic team.
"We are delighted to be able to share this news with all the partner colleges and schools who work with us so closely to bring out the best in our trainees."
Derby has a rich heritage of initial teacher training and its origins in this area of education can be traced back as far as 1851, when the Derby Diocesan Institution for the Training of Schoolmistresses was created.
These recent outcomes consolidate on the University's 'outstanding' result in its primary school teacher training provision as reported by Ofsted in July 2010. Through its PGCE (postgraduate certificate of education) and the BEd (Hons) degree programmes more than 400 students each year study to become newly qualified primary school teachers.
For more information about teacher training at the University of Derby visit website www.derby.ac.uk/education
