Compulsory Higher Education Teacher Training: Joined‐up policies, institutional architectures and enhancement cultures

Interrupting the Institutional Narrative on Teacher Training: the Potential of School-based Teacher Education

Currently, teacher education is at the crossroads. Stimulated by a plethora of government reports and inquiries there are cries for reform, restructuring and change. As teacher educators we have grappled with the complexities, contradictions and tensions emanating from these reform efforts on two fronts. At the institutional level, we have suffered the alienating consequences of restructuring t...

Who’s Responsible for Teacher Training? Ministry of Education, or Higher Education?

This qualitative study aimed to compare the qualification of Higher Education system and Education system in field of teacher education. Using qualitative content analysis, with open coding data by interviews and open-ended questionnaire, data been coded and categorized and then analyzed. Participants of research were selected by purposive sampling (22 samples). Through participants opinions fo...

Distance Education and Teaching Issues: Are Teacher Training and Compensation Keeping Up with Institutional Demands?

The Relationship Between ‘Higher Education and Training’ and ‘Business Sophistication’

Economics of education which investigates economic issues related to education - presents a framework which leads to better schedules and policy-making. On the other hand, the concept of competitiveness has drawn increasing attention of both scholars and governors in the past decade. The World Economic Forum (WEF) has published Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) in order to measure national com...

ALTERNATIVE TEACHER EDUCATION Trends and Implications in Policies and Practices