Initial Teacher Training (ITT)

Early years opportunities, Subject Knowledge Enhancement (SKE), accreditation information, inspections in initial teacher education.

Services

Request a teacher training adviser at an ITT event

How initial teacher training (ITT) providers can request a teacher training adviser to attend a recruitment event.

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Guidance and regulation

Initial teacher training and early career framework
- Guidance
- 30 January 2024
- Department for Education
Initial teacher training (ITT): core content framework
- Guidance
- 30 January 2024
- Department for Education
Initial teacher training (ITT): criteria and supporting advice
- Statutory guidance
- 19 March 2025
- Department for Education
Induction for early career teachers (England)
- Statutory guidance
- 22 April 2025
- Department for Education
Initial teacher education (ITE) inspection: toolkit, operating guide and framework
- Guidance
- 10 September 2025
- Ofsted

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News and communications

New teaching apprenticeship set to transform pathway to classroom
- 4 February 2024
- Department for Education
- Press release
New teacher training inspections to focus on the ITE curriculum
- 24 June 2020
- Ofsted
- Press release
Amanda Spielman speaking at the Royal Opera House
- 27 January 2020
- Ofsted
- Speech
Ofsted consults on changes to inspection framework for teacher training
- 27 January 2020
- Ofsted
- Press release
HMCI commentary: the initial teacher education curriculum
- 16 October 2019
- Ofsted
- Authored article

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Research and statistics

Initial teacher education thematic monitoring visits: overview report
- 1 October 2025
- Ofsted
- Research
Initial teacher training performance profiles: 2023 to 2024
- 31 July 2025
- Department for Education
- Official statistics
Early years initial teacher training programme evaluation
- 26 June 2025
- Department for Education
- Research
Initial teacher education (ITE) inspections and outcomes: management information
- 9 April 2025
- Ofsted
- Statistical data set
Initial teacher training performance profiles: 2022 to 2023
- 25 July 2024
- Department for Education
- Official statistics

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Policy papers and consultations

Further education initial teacher training reform
- 25 January 2024
- Department for Education
- Consultation outcome
- Date closed 07 November 2023
International qualified teacher status (iQTS)
- 23 June 2025
- Department for Education
- Policy paper
ITT core content framework and early career framework: call for evidence
- 25 April 2024
- Department for Education
- Call for evidence outcome
Early career framework
- 30 January 2024
- Department for Education
- Policy paper
Intensive training and practice
- 8 December 2023
- Department for Education
- Policy paper

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

Accredited initial teacher training (ITT) providers
- 7 October 2025
- Department for Education
- Transparency
Secondary maths teacher degree apprenticeship funding pilot: providers
- 22 May 2025
- Department for Education
- Transparency
Monthly statistics on initial teacher training recruitment: 2023 to 2024
- 3 August 2023
- Department for Education
- Transparency
Monthly statistics on initial teacher training (ITT) recruitment: 2022 to 2023
- 4 October 2022
- Department for Education
- Transparency
Number of early career teachers and mentors participating in the early career framework
- 11 March 2022
- Department for Education
- Transparency

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Organisations

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