The National Union of Teachers is the largest teachers’ organisation in Europe. With membership throughout England and Wales, the NUT recruits only qualified teachers. As both a trade union and professional association the NUT is at once campaigning to protect teachers salaries as well as promoting CPD opportunities to all teachers from classroom and college, to curriculum coordinators and those in the leadership group. Find out more here www.teachers.org.uk

Become a Doctor of Education

The Institute for Policy Studies in Education at London Metropolitan University is welcoming applications for its Doctor of Education programme, ideal for educational professionals who want to undertake a substantial investigation into an area of professional practice in education.

The Doctor of Education (EdD) is an innovative, part-time programme with a strong focus on social justice and social inclusion. It is aimed at those who have 3 or more years' employment experience in an education role (e.g. as teachers, managers, staff developers, careers officers) and who already hold a masters qualification (or equivalent).

The course is designed to meet the needs of busy educational professionals, and includes both a taught element, with six modules covering key areas of educational research and policy, and an individual thesis. It is comparable to the PhD in terms of scale and rigour and takes a minimum of four years to complete.

For further information go to: www.londonmet.ac.uk/ipse and select 'Postgraduate research opportunities'

If you have questions about the programme or would like to have an informal discussion before making an application, please contact the Course Director, Professor Carole Leathwood by telephone: 020 7133 2088 or by email: c.leathwood@londonmet.ac.uk

The University of the First Age creates enjoyable learning challenges that enrich lives, increasing aspiration and achievement for young people aged 5 - 25.

We do this through:
Creating a learning network that young people can belong to anywhere, that develops learning and leadership skills for life; and

In doing this, we create lasting relationships with schools, communities and with parents so we can work together to develop innovative learning activities both outside and within the school day.

Find out more, contact the UFA:

Tel: 0121 212 9838
Fax: 0121 212 9585
Email: ufa@ufa.org.uk
Website: www.ufa.org.uk

The National Education Trust (NET) is an independent foundation dedicated to improving the quality of education nationwide, shaping its future and working to help close the achievement gap. The Trust is focused on four key strands of activity:

• National Resource: Developing a national resource of excellent practice and powerful initiatives in early years’ settings, schools and colleges
• Independent Services: Leading high quality school reviews. Providing innovative, personalised training for headteachers, teachers and governors
• Aspire & Inspire: Running ‘chartermarked’ projects for children and young people
• Policy & Advocacy: Influencing stakeholders and policy-makers to shape educational policy, locally, regionally and nationally.

To find out more about NET, including details of our exciting events programme go to www.nationaleducationtrust.net.

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group - an Informa business.

Routledge is a distinguished international publisher of over 600 journals and 1,000 new books each year with a back list of over 7,000 book titles in print. Part of the academic division of Informa plc, the impressive Routledge portfolio covers many different subjects within social sciences and humanities and is at the forefront of academic publishing in these fields.

Routledge has grown rapidly over the last two decades to become a leading international publisher of books and journals. With the acquisition of Fulton Publishers and Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, you can now find in one place an unrivalled collection of high-quality textbooks, practical books for the education professional, and international cutting-edge research and scholarly books.

For information on the Routledge products and services please visit: www.routledge.com/education

Formative and summative e-assessment for Key Stages One and Two

i-nfer profiles for learning analysis (plans) are transforming the way teachers can instantly assess, monitor and respond to children’s understanding and progress in Science, Maths and Reading.

For children they are captivating classroom ‘challenges’ to enjoy and demonstrate what they know and can do. i-nfer plan is both formative and summative, and teachers uniquely benefit from time saving automated marking, objective NFER analysis and suggested classroom activity and grouping.

Schools benefit from consistent evidence of a child’s progress with easy to use and exportable reporting.

i-nfer is a new commercial subsidiary of the NFER. i-nfer plan is based on two years development work by a research team at the NFER. Over 35,000 challenges have been taken by children and analysed as part of the development work and 180 schools took the challenges during the final trialling. i-nfer profits from the sales of i-nfer plan will be fed back to NFER and educational research.
http://www.i-nfer.co.uk/

CUREE is the Centre for the Use of Research & Evidence in Education. Our core purpose is to translate large-scale and technical research findings and resources into materials that teachers and policy makers can use in their day-to-day work. We search regularly and comprehensively to find the most useful research and constantly use evidence about effective learning processes to create new, engaging and accessible tools.

Come and visit CUREE’s stand to find out more about the Effective Mentoring & Coaching suite of resources. Schools using CUREE’s coaching and mentoring packs find them ‘inspirational’. Rooted in evidence about improving learning these fun resources respond effectively to schools’ practical needs. They will help you enthuse and inspire colleagues and equip them with the skills they need for professional learning - to develop their practice, to enhance their subject expertise – or to tackle practical learning or challenges in their classrooms.
www.curee-paccts.com

The GTC contributes to the improvement of standards of teaching and the quality of pupil learning by supporting teacher professionalism.

The GTC Networks provide support by linking teachers nationally and putting them in touch with the latest research and evidence. They let teachers have a voice at national debates on changes to education.
Achieve: Promoting racial equality.
Connect: Leading professional learning.
Engage: Supporting new teachers.

The GTC Teacher Learning Academy offers public and professional recognition of teachers’ learning, development and improvement work. It aims to stimulate learning experiences for teachers which are effective for them, their pupils, their schools and for the education service.

It seeks to support learning communities within and beyond schools that enrich teaching practice and support innovation.

www.gtce.org.uk - For children, through teachers.

The teacher training resource bank (TTRB) is a one-stop web portal providing access to research and evidence based resources for teacher training. The TTRB website provides access to a wide range of quality assured resources, with commentaries of resources provided by reviewers from across the sector. To date over 100 reviewers from a wide range of institutions have been involved in the development of the TTRB; ensuring that the range of resources available are authoritative, credible and relevant.
www.ttrb.ac.uk

The Training and Development Agency for Schools

The TDA works with schools to develop the skills of the whole school workforce. By supporting and developing standards and professional development opportunities for all, we aim to ensure schools can recruit good quality, well-trained people who will continue to develop and improve their skills to support children's learning.

We work to ensure that the supply and quality of teacher training is sufficient for demand and continue to promote teaching as a career. We're working to ensure that routes into teaching are diverse and accessible to ensure that potential trainees or those returning to teaching are fully prepared for their future career.

We continue to support the modernisation of the school workforce to help schools access the resources they need to remodel their workforce, deploy staff effectively and introduce extended services. With such a diverse range of skills amongst staff members, we aim to ensure that staffing arrangements make the best use of these skills, new roles and opportunities and are fully able to implement change positively.
www.tda.gov.uk