The University of Greenwich has finally regained accreditation to deliver teaching training in England, four years after it was controversially removed as part of a government process intended to improve quality.
Students taking courses from September will have their qualified teacher status (QTS) awarded by the south-east London institution again after the U-turn.
Greenwich was one of 13 universities that lost accreditation for initial teacher training in 2022 as part of the Department for Education’s “market review” exercise that replaced many institutions that had trained teachers for years with newer providers.
The former Conservative government was widely seen as suspicious of university-led teacher training and also moved to impose more control over what was taught on the courses, with a focus on the science of learning.
Institutions that lost out have long argued the desk-based exercise was unfair, pointing to positive results in Ofsted inspections as evidence of quality provision. Universities repeatedly attempted to challenge the decision before it was eventually enacted for the 2024-25 academic year.
