features
Explore feature articles on a range of topics from across education.
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Just a paperwork exercise?
- published:
- 25 Jan 2011
Teachers share their views on performance management in new research commissioned by the GTC.
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‘A glass half full or half empty?’
- published:
- 01 Dec 2010
2010 Survey reveals teachers’ mixed responses to measures to improve standards of teaching
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New research explores accountability in teaching
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- 08 Nov 2010
The GTC has recently published two research reports exploring the future of accountability in teaching.
The future accountability of teachers: engaging parents and carers in the debate (454kb)
Engaging children and young people in research and consultation (483kb)
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Joint research on competence referrals: Updated
- published:
- 20 Sep 2010
The GTC has published guidance to ensure consistency in the process for referring cases of teacher incompetence, following a research project jointly commissioned by the GTC and former DCSF.
Factors contributing to the referral and non-referral of incompetence cases to the GTC (0.75MB)
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Held to account
- published:
- 15 Dec 2009
The 2009 Survey of Teachers asks who teachers feel most accountable to, and whether they have access to high quality continuing professional development.

