Teachers enter the profession motivated by the chance to change lives. This must begin with the right foundations. At the centre of this strategy is the most significant reform to teaching in a generation -- the introduction of the Early Career Framework (ECF). The framework will underpin a step change in support for early career teachers,…

One of the few areas of consensus in the literature of higher education concerns the status of teaching. Unanimously, writers report the low status which higher education institutions give to teaching as an activity. This article draws on research investigating activities and perceptions of staff in a single discipline: social policy. The question…