“…Mentoring has been shown internationally to be most effective when strong partnership arrangements between universities and schools are established (Allen, Howells, & Radford, 2013;Allen, White, & Sim, 2017;Darling-Hammond, 2017;Rachamim & Orland-Barak, 2018). There is nothing surprising in this, given the common understandings that need to be reached between higher education providers and schools about a range of matters, including the aims and purpose of a particular professional experience endeavour (according to its sequence in the ITE program), the learning and assessment outcomes involved, the functions of those involved in both sectors to best support those in pre-service, and communication requirements (see, e.g.…”