The Curriculum of Teacher Education and Training

Chapter Ten outlined some of the ways in which Ministries of Education have been adapting the organisational structure of teacher training to meet contemporary needs. Possibly, the main efforts have gone into diversifying provision for the initial training of new recruits and untrained serving teachers. At the same time there has been some action to provide in-service training for the professional development of some categories of teachers. But these remarks are based on impression rather than hard fact because no comprehensive, global surveys exist which detail the type, range and extent of teacher training provision, nor, importantly, the balance of expenditure on initial and recurrent training.