The name is absent

A further constraint follows from the
capacity of the Alternative Course

enable

staff

respond to

schools

and

students;

reduce

fragmentation

and to challenge the split between subject method aπttwork

in education.

This is the effect of sustained participation in work of

this nature at this level

on career patterns.

Institutional careers are

related to departmental

structures whose

main

concerns

are long

established and reflected in courses at a variety of levels and in

comparison

innovation

has a degree of fragility and impermanence.

Each of these

constraints

could be

said should be

faced by those

institutions which are trying to change the

structures

and processes of

their PGCE course.

It has also to be said that at present staff in

institutions who involve themselves in changing the structures and

The

processes will personally face such pressures and constraints.

degree to which the personal and structural dimensions can be related and

resolved through political decisions is the degree to which any permanent

change will be affected and in this process innovation has an important

role to play.