Personal response  Discussions need to continue around professional practice in our pre- service primary teaching degree  There is value in researching and evaluating professional practice as it stands, to remind us in later years of the key issues raised by students and lecturers at this time  Evaluations like this should continue to challenge our thinking and encourage us to reflect on how we deliver teacher education now and for the future - especially in terms of professional practice  Evaluating professional practice 5 years on from this 2007 merger between 2 different tertiary institutions, will enable us to compare what we as lecturers and students value and the impact the merging has had
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