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INSET, n.2 U.K. Educ.|ˈɪnsɛt|
Also Inset.
[Acronym f. the initial letters of in-service education and training. Often taken as abbrev. for in-service training: see in prep. II. 18.]
Term-time, in-service training for teachers in U.K. state schools, a statutory condition of employment since 1987. Freq. attrib. See *Baker day n.
1974In-Service Educ. & Training (Dept. Educ. & Sci.: Advisory Comm. Supply & Training of Teachers) (unpublished discussion paper) 1 The term ‘in-service education and training’ (INSET) has been used in this paper in preference to the more common ‘in-service training’. Ibid., INSET is at present provided by many different agencies and consists of a profusion of activities. 1978Brit. Jrnl. In-Service Educ. IV. 185/2 INSET courses should be planned to meet identified teacher-needs. 1984Guardian 14 Aug. 13/4 One innovation..is called initial training/inservice training (IT/INSET), in which student teachers, their tutors and class teachers, work together with the same class of children. 1991Times Educ. Suppl. 15 Mar. 53/3 We decided not to write a report, but to run three Inset sessions in which four experienced teachers would demonstrate carousel group work. |