ABSTRACT
The chapter starts by reviewing some key features of the development of teacher education in Scotland in the context of the wider social and cultural positioning of state education. In order to ensure that recruitment is not limited to Scottish teachers, there is often similarly a requirement that recruits are either registered with or eligible for registration with' the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS). It was at least in part the existence of such staff that has helped the foundation disciplines to continue to exist more in Scotland than elsewhere in the UK, albeit in somewhat diminished form. In Scotland, with increasing anxiety about the RAE and REF, we have also seen an increasing desire to recruit research leaders of international stature, those who may already be professors elsewhere and can play a significant role in the education submissions of the universities.
