3.9 The Government is determined that the HE sector should be fully involved in developing the very best in teacher training and continuing professional support and has welcomed the effort which went into the Sutherland Report into teacher training. Many of the recommendations in that Report were in line with what was said regarding teacher training in England in the remit letter to the Teacher Training Agency. The DfEE published in November 1997 an explanatory paper on how it forecasts future teacher training requirements, Teacher Supply and Demand Modelling, as recommended by the Sutherland Report. The Scottish Office responded fully on 3 February to the recommendations in the section of the Sutherland Report relating to Scotland.

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