Subject Knowledge and Initial Teacher Education

In 2015 the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME) released their report Beginning Teaching: best in class? High-quality initial teacher education for all teachers of mathematics in England.  The report found that there are many inconsistencies in the provision of maths initial teacher education (ITE) in England, in part due to the variety of routes available into the profession (including university-based postgraduate courses, School Direct, School-Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) and Teach First)) but in the main due to the absence of a shared standard for maths ITE.