ABSTRACT
With Circular 9/92 the DFE made a deliberate and forceful thrust towards school-based initial teacher education. By comparison the Government’s strategy regarding INSET has always been more indirect if nonetheless determined. The establishment of development days in the late 1980s encouraged schools to plan INSET related to their school’s development priorities. The introduction of local management of schools and grantmaintained status put control of the funding for staff development directly in the hands of headteachers and, in so doing, gave considerable impetus to the growth of school-based in-service teacher-education schemes.
