emCETT is one of eleven National Centres of Excellence in Teacher Training, managed by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) as part of the National Improvement Strategy for the further education system.

emCETT stands for East Midlands Centre for Excellence in Teacher Training.

We need to increase our capacity to deliver high quality teacher education, including specialist SfL teaching qualifications, across the East Midlands as demand, particularly from WBL, ACL and the voluntary sector, continues to increase.

EMCETT will source and develop better resources to support ITE/CPD and disseminate them electronically to ensure that they can be accessed where and when they are needed.

We will support clusters of partners, working within an ethos of peer review and development, to apply, evaluate and further develop these new resources as well as new methods of delivery.

We aim, in this way, to enable the (still) relatively few numbers of confident and competent teacher educators to deliver a better level of support to a greater proportion of the workforce whilst helping to develop the teacher educators of the future.

Partner organisations

Delivery: South East Derbyshire College, Derby College, Stephenson College, Brooksby-Melton College, Leicester College, Loughborough College, Moulton College, Northampton College, Peterborough Regional College, South Leicestershire College, West Notts College, South Notts College, Castle College, Stamford College, In Touch care Ltd, Derbyshire Network, Tresham Institute of Further & Higher Education, Leicestershire Adult & Community Learning Service, Northamptonshire Training & Development Partnership, University of Derby, University of Leicester, University of Northampton, LANTERN (Northamptonshire Training & Development Partnership), East Midlands Skills Association, Derbyshire County Council ACL, Notts County Council ACL and East Midlands RSC 

Constituent: Nottingham Children's Services, Northamptonshire Adult Learning Service,

Aim(s)

EMCETT aims to create a sustainable partnership responsive to sector needs that will equip our teachers with the skills and knowledge to provide excellent, imaginative, up-to-date and relevant teaching by:

• raising the overall quality of ITT provision through the development and maintenance of a coherent and co-ordinated partnership framework;
• improving and developing subject specialist mentor support across the Learning and Skills Sector;
• supporting the integration of ITT/CPD and HR systems and processes across the CETT through;
• providing CPD opportunities to meet specific training needs and improve progression opportunities for trainees.

For General information about EMCETT see:

• Our Team Profiles (People Page)
• EMCETT Who are we.pdf
• Vision Purpose and Principles.pdf
• FAQ's