Warnings of ‘political interference’ as Govt looks to move oversight of teacher training

The education minister is proposing the Ministry of Education oversee teacher training – a move that would put the profession out-of-step with nurses, lawyers, doctors, social workers and psychologists.
The proposal to shift decisions about how and what teachers are taught, and by whom, away from the independent Teaching Council to a ministry under direct political control has been described as a “really dangerous precedent” by the chair of the Council of Deans of Education.