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Teacher Training Agency
Teacher Training Agency
The Teacher Training Agency's purpose is to raise standards in schools by attracting able and committed people to teaching and by improving the quality of teacher training.  The Agency's core aims are:
promote teaching as a profession and boost the recruitment and retention of high quality people
increase the proportion of initial teacher training (ITT) places allocated to high quality providers
raise the standards and quality of ITT; and
support the Government and others in wider initiatives to raise standards of teaching by helping to ensure that teachers in their induction years receive the structured support they need; by contributing to improving the knowledge, understanding and skills of serving teachers; and by helping to secure teaching as an evidence and research based profession

Visit the site for details on how to become a teacher, returning to teaching, ITT, QTS Skills Tests, Induction, In-service training, Special Educational Needs, National Standards, Early Years, Research, and ICT.