International literature review on alternative initial teacher education pathways

Published: 2016

Initial Teacher Education (ITE) in South Africa currently experiences three major problems in delivering high quality teachers capable of effective teaching:

• an inadequate supply of teachers for the schooling system;
• the poor quality of some Initial Teacher Education programmes which results in the majority of newly qualified teachers (NQTs) being inadequate to the tasks facing them in schools across the country; and
• the generally poor quality of distance education and the large part it plays in the total provision of new teachers.