ABSTRACT
The 1980s saw a substantial shift of attention and resources in inservice education from higher education-based courses to school-based in-service programmes and from LEA held and managed in-service budgets to budgets under the control of schools. The most visible manifestation of this was the introduction of five professional development days when staff were required to attend school, when pupils were not present, for staff development. The 1990s have seen the extension of this shift in responsibility to the initial training of teachers, with the introduction of the articled and licensed teachers schemes and in 1992 of the requirement for substantial proportions of initial training courses for secondary schools (24 weeks of the 36-week postgraduate course) to take place in schools (DFE 1992).
