What is it about?
The study explores how Further Education (FE) lecturers are perceived in secondary school settings. Perceptions of recruitment agencies that work directly with FE-trained teachers and of mentors in secondary schools are collected alongside views from FE teachers within a case study framework. The struggle for QTLS to be recognised as having parity with QTS continues.
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Why is it important?
In spite of the widely acclaimed parity status of QTLS with QTS, the prospects of FE-trained teachers of developing their career via the secondary school route are very limited. The study found that secondary school colleagues have a perception of their FE-trained counterparts as less professional than themselves for some reasons, thus raising a form of intra-professional group conflict.
Perspectives
I really enjoyed writing this article with my co-authors yet it brought home the significance of the lack of awareness of QTLS status and its parity with QTS. It is therefore, important to recommend policy and curriculum intervention in order for the parity condition to fulfil its full potential.
Michelle Best
University of Greenwich
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This page is a summary of: Last among equals: perceptions and prospects of further education trained PGCE holders in the age of ‘parity’, Research in Post-Compulsory Education, January 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13596748.2019.1584430.
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