Bring together a collection of 140 practitioners, educational researchers, MPs, and teacher trainers into what Barry Sheerman MP, chairman
of the Children, Schools and Families Select Committee, describes as something akin to “a hiring fair” – a brilliant idea or an invitation to chaos?

Sheerman’s committee is currently undertaking an inquiry into initial teacher training and continuous professional development for teachers. Many of the findings of this fascinating group, which met recently in Westminster, are likely to offer interest to workplace trainers.

Once gathered together, the group was invited to voice opinion in the public arena, not a place where educational research is normally seen. Far too often educational research findings, of potential value to all who toil in the training field, takes place, and remains lodged within, the Ivory Towers of Academe.

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