Dropping in or dropping out? : is the teacher training institution to blame for why teacher trainees leave teacher education?

The low quality of the Norwegian teacher education has in large part been blamed for the quality in the Norwegian primary and secondary school. A new teacher education will be implemented from the academic year 2010/11. (1) Can the quality of the teacher education institution be the reason for why some teacher trainee drops out from teacher education? (2) What can the teacher education institution do to prevent teacher trainees to drop out from teacher education? These research questions will be answered by analysing data gathered by using semi structured interviews of a group of teacher trainees and a group of former teacher trainees (dropouts).