ABSTRACT
This chapter presents in the context of a conference devoted to the consideration of problems arising at the present time from the re-organisation of teacher education. It begins by considering the impact of the terms in higher education generally in the hope that at a time of radical re-structuring. A sharp-eyed observer might of course have noticed that the minority report of that Committee was signed by the only experienced teacher trainers on the Committee. That minority report saw advantage in the maintenance and indeed development of the university link. University validation differs from the CNAA validation. Though universities are national and international institutions, in their work as validating bodies they operate as local organisations. This is at once their strength and their weakness as validating bodies. The particularity of university validation can also however be a drawback as those who have their curricular wishes unduly influenced by a prevailing view in the university department.
