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Scottish Parliament Select Committee
Letter from the Minister for Higher Education, Further Education and Minister for Veterans, 21 December 2022
 Resetting national collective bargaining in the college sector lessons learned exercise

Correspondence Dec. 21 2023

Committee: Education, Children and Young People Committee

Found: collective bargaining in the college sector lessons learned exercise Letter from the Minister for Higher Education

Scottish Parliament Select Committee
Letter from the Minister for Higher and Further Education; and Minister for Veterans, 27 September 2023
 Scottish Education Exchange Programme Test and Learn Project

Correspondence Sep. 27 2023

Committee: Education, Children and Young People Committee

Found: Scottish Education Exchange Programme Test and Learn Project Letter from the Minister for Higher and

Scottish Parliament Select Committee
Letter from the Minister for Higher and Further Education and Minister for Veterans, 6 December 2023
 Post school reform update

Correspondence Dec. 06 2023

Committee: Education, Children and Young People Committee

Found: Post school reform update Letter from the Minister for Higher and Further Education and Minister for

Scottish Parliament Select Committee
Correspondence to the Convener from Graeme Dey, Minister for Higher and Further Education and Minister for Veterans, Scottish Government, 5 December 2023
 Post School Reform: Update from the Scottish Government, December 2023

Correspondence Dec. 05 2023

Committee: Public Audit Committee

Found: Government, December 2023 Correspondence to the Convener from Graeme Dey, Minister for Higher and Further Education

Scottish Parliament Select Committee
Letter to the Minister for Higher and Further Education and Minister for Veterans regarding College Regionalisation Inquiry report responses, 24 November 2023
 College Regionalisation Inquiry follow up 24 November 2023

Correspondence Nov. 24 2023

Inquiry: Colleges regionalisation inquiry
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Education, Children and Young People Committee

Found: College Regionalisation Inquiry follow up 24 November 2023 Letter to the Minister for Higher and Further Education

Departmental Publication (News and Communications)
Department for Education

May. 21 2024

Source Page: Children at heart of D-Day 80 with ultimate history lesson
Document: Children at heart of D-Day 80 with ultimate history lesson (webpage)

Found: They along with all our brave veterans are truly inspirational.

Written Question
Schools: Veterans
Wednesday 17th April 2024

Asked by: Steve McCabe (Labour - Birmingham, Selly Oak)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of employing veterans in schools to provide courses on leadership and resilience for (a) teachers and (b) students.

Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)

A key principle behind the government's plan for education is to give teachers and school leaders the freedom to use their professional judgement to do what works best for their pupils. As such, headteachers are ultimately responsible for employment in their schools and the department trusts them to take decisions about the right mix of qualifications, skills and experience that they expect teachers in their schools to have.

The department recently reviewed the Initial Teacher Training (ITT) Core Content Framework (CCF) and Early Career Framework (ECF) alongside each other and revised the ITT CCF and the ECF into the combined and updated Initial Teacher Training and Early Career Framework (ITTECF). This now covers the first three years or more at the start of a teacher’s career, and sets out the entitlement of every trainee and early career teacher (ECT) to the core body of knowledge, skills and behaviours that define great teaching. The ITTECF is universal and designed to work for all teachers, across all phases and subjects.

Beyond this, school leaders are responsible for ensuring their workforce has appropriate training to meet the needs of all pupils, which is in line with the department’s position on school autonomy and school leaders being best placed to assess the needs of their pupils and workforce.

The government remains committed to supporting veterans with a passion for teaching to enter the profession, both in schools and the further education sector. The department is working with the Ministry of Defence to ensure veterans are aware of the range of programmes and support available through the department’s services and bursaries.

Veterans are eligible for a tax-free undergraduate bursary of £40,000 if they are:

  • A veteran who has left full-time employment with the British Army, Royal Air Force or Royal Navy no more than 5 years before the start of the teacher training course.
  • Training to teach secondary biology, chemistry, computing, languages, maths or physics.
  • Doing an undergraduate degree leading to qualified teacher status (QTS) in England.

Graduate veterans may also be eligible for a postgraduate scholarship or bursary if they are training to teach priority subjects.

More information on how the department support veterans to become teachers, including the offer of one-to-one support from a teacher training advisor, can be found here: https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/funding-and-support/if-youre-a-veteran.

Scottish Cross Party Group Publication (Annual return / report)
Source Page: Cross-Party Group in the Scottish Parliament on Armed Forces and Veterans Community
Document: 2021 Registration form (PDF)

Found: 12 months : Topics that will be discussed in relation to the AFVC include: • Employment; • Education

Written Question
Schools: Veterans
Wednesday 17th April 2024

Asked by: Steve McCabe (Labour - Birmingham, Selly Oak)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing veteran awareness training for teachers.

Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)

A key principle behind the government's plan for education is to give teachers and school leaders the freedom to use their professional judgement to do what works best for their pupils. As such, headteachers are ultimately responsible for employment in their schools and the department trusts them to take decisions about the right mix of qualifications, skills and experience that they expect teachers in their schools to have.

The department recently reviewed the Initial Teacher Training (ITT) Core Content Framework (CCF) and Early Career Framework (ECF) alongside each other and revised the ITT CCF and the ECF into the combined and updated Initial Teacher Training and Early Career Framework (ITTECF). This now covers the first three years or more at the start of a teacher’s career, and sets out the entitlement of every trainee and early career teacher (ECT) to the core body of knowledge, skills and behaviours that define great teaching. The ITTECF is universal and designed to work for all teachers, across all phases and subjects.

Beyond this, school leaders are responsible for ensuring their workforce has appropriate training to meet the needs of all pupils, which is in line with the department’s position on school autonomy and school leaders being best placed to assess the needs of their pupils and workforce.

The government remains committed to supporting veterans with a passion for teaching to enter the profession, both in schools and the further education sector. The department is working with the Ministry of Defence to ensure veterans are aware of the range of programmes and support available through the department’s services and bursaries.

Veterans are eligible for a tax-free undergraduate bursary of £40,000 if they are:

  • A veteran who has left full-time employment with the British Army, Royal Air Force or Royal Navy no more than 5 years before the start of the teacher training course.
  • Training to teach secondary biology, chemistry, computing, languages, maths or physics.
  • Doing an undergraduate degree leading to qualified teacher status (QTS) in England.

Graduate veterans may also be eligible for a postgraduate scholarship or bursary if they are training to teach priority subjects.

More information on how the department support veterans to become teachers, including the offer of one-to-one support from a teacher training advisor, can be found here: https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/funding-and-support/if-youre-a-veteran.

Written Question
Schools: Veterans
Thursday 23rd May 2024

Asked by: Steve McCabe (Labour - Birmingham, Selly Oak)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 17 April 2024 to Question 20857 on Schools: Veterans, what estimate her Department has made of the number of veterans that will take up the undergraduate veteran teaching bursary in 2024.

Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)

The department does not forecast how many veterans will take up the undergraduate veteran teaching bursary. The bursary is paid to eligible veterans if they enrol on an eligible undergraduate initial teacher training course.