New: Government's new "Institute of Teaching will receive £6m special funding, and could change its name: https://www.educationuncovered.co.uk/news/149476/governments-new-institute-of-teaching-will-receive-6-million-special-funding-and-could-change-its-name.thtml I dig a bit, in this piece, into implications of yet another government move in this field, including looking at detail of spec as announced so far.

Significance of the new org, or a partner,having degree- and PGCE-awarding powers being mentioned as notable,with speculation that this could achieve ministers' long-held alleged goal of bypassing HE in teacher ed,tho has been pointed out that "institute's" student nos not large.

Remarkably, of course, this is the second time in just over three years that DfE has backed a professional "institute" for teaching profession. Last one, of course, was Institute for Teaching...what happened to that, then? (Merged into Ambition, of course...)

Ambition and Institute for Teaching together were awarded more than half of the Greening-era cash through the Teaching and Leadership Innovation Fund. What happened to that, and why another revamp now? Questions, questions, covered in part in piece today: https://www.educationuncovered.co.uk/news/149476/governments-new-institute-of-teaching-will-receive-6-million-special-funding-and-could-change-its-name.thtml

Would also recommend again this piece by @David_Spendlove , not least in setting out the context of reforms of past 10 years, closed-loop sets of advisers etc: https://wonkhe.com/blogs/we-need-a-review-of-initial-teacher-education-just-not-this-one-and-not-now/