We have published our annual report for 2025 to 2026. The report highlights the progress we have made over the reporting period (1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026), along with key achievements in our work towards trusted teaching.
Ensuring trust in the teaching profession through our core work of setting, upholding and promoting high standards remains our key priority as the regulator for teachers in Scotland.
Clare Harker, Convener of GTC Scotland Council, said: “As convener, I will ensure that we continue to place high teaching standards at the centre of our work and maintain the legacy we have in Scotland where the quality of teachers and teaching is respected.”
Dr Pauline Stephen, GTC Scotland Chief Executive and Registrar, added: “This annual report marks the midway point of our strategic plan 2023 to 2028. It has been gratifying to see work that we initiated at the beginning of the plan take root and reach an advanced stage. As we move into the penultimate year of this strategic plan, it is with a strong sense of purpose and belief in what we can achieve.”
Our strategic themes
To help us to achieve our vision of trusted teaching we have 2 strategic themes: trust and impact.
Enhancing trust in teaching
Strategic outcome 1: trust in teaching is enhanced at an individual, group and system level, positively impacting learners and guiding educational change.
Highlights from the year include:
- progress on the review of our Fitness to Teach rules ahead of consultation in 2027
- work beginning on the new Fitness to Teach case management system
- consultation on the new teacher education accreditation policy
- publishing the Reimagining teacher education in Scotland: teacher induction report, which sets out our views on the current arrangements for teacher induction and recommendations for change
Improving performance and impact
Strategic outcome 2: improve our performance and impact for the teaching profession and in the public interest.
Highlights from the year include:
- rolling out the new MyGTCS platform to provisionally registered teachers and their supporters
- implementing an organisational learning plan for staff
- revising our communications approach by issuing tailored newsletters for partners and school leaders
- publishing our annual registration report which included 5 recommendations for teacher supply planning, which were shared with stakeholders, including the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills as part of our statutory responsibility of making recommendations to the Scottish Ministers on matters relating to the supply of teachers
Read the Annual Report 2025 to 2026
