There aren’t many new initiatives in education that have the support of teachers, the unions and all political parties. But the idea of a new member-driven College of Teaching does.
Almost everyone agrees that the practice of the government of the day defining teachers’ professional standards has played its part in teachers feeling disempowered and having a low status in society.
So, when 1,200 teachers and heads responded to our survey, I wasn’t surprised that more than 92 per cent said that they wanted to see a new independent body that would give them a voice on professional standards and, beyond that, education policy.
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