Institutional counteraction to digital divide of selected social groups
Teacher training expenditure is a necessary component of quality assurance in the education system. The expenditure on training courses is the equivalent of R&D Expenditure in the manufacturing sector. Teacher training courses should aim to improve the quality of education in schools. The quality of teacher training can be assessed from several perspectives – one of them, applied in this papers, is the perspective of teacher trainers (educators). The paper presents
the empirical findings from the survey conducted by the author. The respondents were asked about such issues as the attitudes of teachers towards their own development, the quality of in-house teacher training centers in Poland, the impact of quality of training on the quality of education in schools. The attributes of good quality training courses were identified and described.
