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Connecting with the Standard for Middle Leadership
GTC Scotland held the first virtual event to celebrate the Standard for Middle Leadership on 20 November 2023. The Standard for Middle Leadership is an aspirational Professional Standard, and provides a developmental framework for teachers in or considering leadership roles. At the event, Kevin Brack, Lecturer in Educational Leadership and the… -
GTC Scotland reiterates calls for improvements to regulatory system at Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry
GTC Scotland, the teaching profession’s independent registration and regulation body, has reiterated calls for improvements to the regulatory system at the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry’s latest case study into abuse at the Edinburgh Academy. During the hearing, GTC Scotland Strategic Director, Jennifer Macdonald, raised the need for improvement to information… -
GTC Scotland recognises teacher as a Pioneering Spirit in Equality with Saroj Lal Award
The General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTC Scotland) has awarded the Saroj Lal Award for a Pioneering Spirit in Equality and Diversity to Edinburgh Biology teacher Hardeep Kaur. The Saroj Lal Award celebrates the efforts of GTC Scotland registered teachers who challenge adversity in a bit to promote and facilitate… -
GTC Scotland announces George D Gray Award winner
The General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTC Scotland) has awarded the George D Gray CBE MA Award to Queen Margaret University graduate Lauren Thomson. The George D Gray Award recognises the most distinguished assignment by a student teacher completing an undergraduate Primary teacher education programme in Scotland. Assignments are judged… -
Entries open for Saroj Lal Award for a Pioneering Spirit in Equality and Diversity
The Saroj Lal Award was created to identify and celebrate the efforts of colleagues who demonstrate a pioneering spirit, determination and challenge adversity in a bid to promote and facilitate a culture and ethos of equality and diversity and actively challenge discrimination. -
GTC Scotland sets out vision of Trusted Teaching in new strategic plan
GTC Scotland, the teaching profession’s independent registration and regulation body, has set out its vision of Trusted Teaching in its Strategic Plan 2023-28. The organisation’s role is to keep a public register of teachers and set and uphold the standards for entering and remaining in the teaching profession. Khadija Mohammed, Council… -
GTC Scotland publishes ethics guide supporting teachers to speak up when something isn’t right
GTC Scotland has published Ethics in Teaching: Speaking Up Guide for Teaching Professionals. The guide aims to promote and build confidence among teachers and college lecturers to address professional challenges, this includes having the professional courage to speak up when they have concerns. The guide has dedicated sections on speaking… -
GTC Scotland’s work to uphold trust in the teaching profession highlighted in annual report
GTC Scotland, the teaching profession’s independent registration and regulation body, has published our Annual Report and Financial Accounts and Annual Review for 2021-22. This penultimate report from the refreshed Strategic Plan 2020-2023, highlights the work undertaken in the year to April 2022, in pursuit of four strategic outcomes: 1. Upholding… -
Provisional professional standard for college lecturers approved; new transitional route to GTC Scotland registration opens
The General Teaching Council for Scotland’s (GTC Scotland) Council has approved the Standard for Provisional Registration (Lecturers in Scotland’s Colleges), providing a new transitional route to registration for a defined group of college lecturers who do not yet hold a GTC Scotland-recognised teaching qualification, or the equivalent for those qualified… -
The teaching profession on the International Day of Education
To mark the International Day of Education, Dr Pauline Stephen, Chief Executive and Registrar of GTC Scotland, has written to Scottish Parliament’s Education, Children and Young People Committee on the role of the Teaching Profession.