this national partnership between the ministry of education and the main stakeholders and municipalitiescounties aims to increase the quality and status of the teaching profession teacher education and school leadership a yearly teacher recruitment campaign is an important part of gnist another initiative is the development of national guidelines for differentiated primary and lower secondary teacher education programmes for years and years and to support implementation of the new teacher education reform furthermore a national fouryear programme to improve formative assessment at the school level assessment for learning is already showing positive results