A key issue centering on the status of college-trained entrants relative to that of post-graduate entrants to teaching has been arguments over the merits and demerits of consecutive and concurrent courses. Attempts to chart the ebb and flow of such arguments since Plowden and to relate them to the continuing debate about the professional status of…

IT-INSET (Initial Training-In-Service Education of Teachers), is sponsored by the Department of Education and Science. It supports curriculum development by local teachers, providing them with initial-year education students as aides. The operation of the project at one junior school and the science curriculum developed are outlined. (SJL)