THE UNIVERSITY of Worcester has created an additional 100 teacher training spaces.
The new educational secretary has set out an immediate plan to recruit 6,500 more teachers in the UK.
Additional places are available this September on the one-year Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE), which includes Primary, Secondary, and Further Education, as well as on the undergraduate primary teaching course and salaried training places in partnership with selected schools.
Professor David Green CBE DL, vice chancellor and chief executive of the University of Worcester, said: “It is most positive to hear the new Secretary of State for Education taking immediate action to boost teacher recruitment.
“Government targets have been missed every year for the past decade.
“It is vital we reverse this trend.
“As one of the country’s largest and very best educators of teachers we are deeply committed to working with the new Government in the interests of our country’s children.”
Worcester received an Ofsted rating of ‘Outstanding’ in May last year.
The University, works with almost 500 schools and education providers across the country and has also partnered with the University of East Anglia to accredit their delivery of first-class teacher education in the East of England.
Professor Green added: “We were pleased to welcome Bridget Phillipson to the University in December 2022, when she was the Shadow Secretary of State, and to talk to her about our work and show her The Hive, where children are at the heart of what we do.”
