ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how partnerships between higher education institutions and schools develop in teacher education programmes, and how these can support mentoring. The roles of structures and relationships are explored in relation to the working of successful partnerships. Bullough and Draper present a case study where the relationship between a school-based mentor and a university tutor breaks down, resulting in the trainee teacher having to decide which party to align herself with in order to complete a successful school placement. It explains a range of international partnerships between higher education institutions and schools supporting trainee teachers on placement and how these could also be utilized by the people mentoring philosophy of all their mentees including beginning teachers within the people school. Researchers have focused on the features of partnership that ultimately enable success for their trainee teachers, and therefore could also be useful when the people mentor beginning teachers.
