Access to recommended reading

HEI (Higher Education Institute) and school-based teacher trainers may from time to time wish to purchase their own hard or electronic copies of books and journals in the Recommended reading sections.

However, it is assumed most professionals will normally require free-of-charge access to this material in order to carry out their training role within any of the many current routes into MFL teaching.

The following notes may help you gain the free-of-charge access you require as a key member of a HEI- or school-based team delivering ITT for MFL via BEd, BA/BSc with QTS, PGCE, SCITT, Teach first, GTP, RTP, or OTTP.

If recommended reading has been made freely available in electronic format by the publisher, it will be downloadable from or via the ITT MFL support for teacher trainers site.

Other recommended reading will be available from HEI libraries in hard copy via walk-in access, and sometimes in electronic format too.

If you do not know how to find your partner HEI’s library catalogue, try starting from this Index of UK HEI libraries listed by country.

HEI staff status normally offers full walk-in and remote borrowing access to books and journals from your institution’s library facilities. This facility normally extends to part-time staff. As the quality of induction procedures varies immensely, some new or part-time staff may not yet know how to activate remote access procedures: they should contact designated library staff or the institution’s ICT/information services department.

Associate HEI staff status for school-based teachers in a training role normally offers full borrowing access to hard copy books and journals in your institution’s library facilities, free of charge. Local and national agreements sometimes extend these access privileges to all regional schoolteachers and other members of the education community such as visiting researchers or ex-graduates; whether this is free-of-charge or not varies from institution to institution. As the area of remote electronic access to library services and stock is currently undergoing rapid review and development, school-based associate staff may soon, or already, be able to apply for this facility via their partner HEI.

All library stock access issues, remote and walk-in, may be dealt with by designated library staff or by the institution’s ICT/information services department on a direct or on-line basis.