Some Insights into the Approaches to Selecting Potential Candidates to Become Student Teacher

The present paper focuses on the discussion of a set of data resulted from a research carried out by The European Network on Teacher Education Policies (ENTEP) on the subject of teacher recruitment. The survey covered the policies aimed at attracting new teachers to join the profession, and the means used to select suitable people to train to be teachers. The answers are still to be summarized in an overview report, with individual country annexes, to be published on the ENTEP website. The area we refer to in the article is that of Approaches to selecting potential candidates to become student teachers.