Our School and College Partnerships
Our partnership work with schools is grounded in our shared moral purpose of unlocking the talent in every individual learner and encouraging their curiosity and development, helping them to be as successful as they can be.
We seek to do this through collaboration that provides mutual support; trust based on honesty and openness and doing what we say we will; continuous improvement and innovation founded on evidence; a focus on excellence in quality and impact on outcomes; and a belief that all schools and teachers have a valuable and significant contribution to make, no matter what their circumstances are.
Initial Teacher Education Parnerships
Our Initial Teacher Education Partnerships have gone from strength to strength as we have developed our provision with our partners. Together, we support about seven hundred trainee teachers every year.
Partner schools and colleges can work with us in one of four main ways:
Providing placements and mentors for trainee teachers
This is valuable CPD for your staff and also makes it likely that our trainee teachers will consider taking up employment with you once they are graduated and certified.
Providing experienced members of staff who can act as Lead Mentors
Lead Mentors will draw on their experience to support mentors across our partnership. This is valuable CPD for your staff and allows you to contribute to the development of mentoring across our region.
Advertising places on our postgraduate ITE courses
Courses will be advertised via the DfE’s Find / Apply system. You will be able to assess applications, and candidate recruited this way are on the same course as those that NTU recruits directly, but it is likely that they will be placed with our recruiting partner.
Becoming a Strategic Lead Partner
You will take on significant responsibility within our teacher education partnership. You will help us to steer the direction and development of the partnership, lead the ITE activity of a defined group of schools and help to identify local supply of and demand for teachers by subject and phase.
All of these roles command funding. There are also other opportunities to become involved with other aspects of our partnership, such as developing future provision in areas of need.
CPD opportunities for your staff
Our Institute has an array of provision and new opportunities that are in development that aim to help you to develop your staff and your organisation:
Apprenticeships
We offer a postgraduate teacher apprenticeship, are developing a new Secondary Mathematics undergraduate degree apprenticeship, and are exploring a new Level 5 Specialist Teaching Assistant apprenticeship.
Building on the significant experience and commitment that NTU has in this area, these apprenticeships allow you to fund the development and certification of your members of staff through your apprenticeship levy.
Part-time qualifications
We offer Foundation Degrees and a BA degree that allow busy professionals to study for these qualifications on a part-time basis. Our Education: Policy and Practice courses are available at both our Clifton and Mansfield campuses.
Outdoor Learning
Outdoor Learning features across our course portfolio. One aspect of this is our Forest Schools Certification. This three-day course is designed to enable you to assist a Forest School programme and allows progression to further study within the wider outdoor learning and forestry area.
MA Education offsite
We offer an offsite MA programme that is setup for a group of employees from an organisation. We provide an academic tutor who supports your members of staff through their studies onsite in the school, college or other educational setting where they are employed.