institutions that teach educators should also be asked to regularly revise their programmes to make them current and relevant to the schools their graduates work in as well as to ensure their programmes to reflect national education priorities at present there is no national framework that guarantees the outcomes or quality of these courses teacher educators are not required to take responsibility for the preparation of their students either practice or inservice teaching as well as induction programmes are currently serendipitous rather than the norm the proposed programmes for practice teaching and induction must be centred in pedagogy and strongly linked to highquality teacher preparation in terms of knowledge skills and professional practice