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How Entry Profiles can benefit your training provider

  • Entry Profiles help applicants to choose the right teacher training course for them, as they can see if their qualifications, skills and experience meet all the requirements for course entry .
  • Entry Profiles give admissions tutors and others involved in compiling them the opportunity to think about what it is they are looking for in their applicants and to outline this in the Entry Profiles.The provision of Entry Profiles should help applicants to write better personal statements.
  • Increased transparency in Entry Profiles will assist applicants from widening participation backgrounds, mature applicants and those with diverse qualifications who are thinking about applying for postgraduate teacher training.
  • Entry Profiles indicate good customer care and so should be considered as part of a training provider's Customer Service Management (CSM) approach . If applicants see poor Entry Profiles, or none at all, they may feel the training provider is not interested in them.
  • More and better information through Entry Profiles should lead to improved market awareness and thus assist in the marketing of courses.
  • Entry Profiles are an easy way for training providers to make sure applicants are aware of how they use contextual data at the time of application or at other times - if indeed they do use it.
  • Research by the National Disability Team (NDT) and Skill has shown that prospective disabled trainee teachers often need longer to research their choices before applying for teacher training. Full provision of Entry Profiles will assist not only disabled people but all applicants in their research.
  • A number of training providers have found it useful to include the development of an Entry Profile as a standard part of internal approval arrangements for a new course and / or as part of preparing a programme specification.
  • Entry Profiles can be updated at any time of year, so that training providers can ensure that the information provided is always correct and up-to-date.

Adapted from:
Entry Profiles - Key messages and benefits for HEIs
Supporting Professionalism in Admissions (SPA)/Delivery Partnership, November 2007

For more information about the work of SPA, please visit its website: www.spa.ac.uk.