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Develop your next generation of teachers
Combat teacher shortages by building your own qualified teacher workforce with our Postgraduate Teaching Apprenticeship.
What is the Postgraduate Teaching Apprenticeship?
Our Level 6 Postgraduate Teaching Apprenticeship is a nationally recognised, work-based route into teaching. It enables staff employed in your school to gain qualified teacher status (QTS) through on and off the job training – for little or no extra cost to your school*.
Attract and develop talented staff
Our Postgraduate Teaching Apprenticeship will help your staff to:
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Gain qualified teacher status (QTS) through on and off the job training.
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Develop deep knowledge and understanding of their chosen phase and subject.
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Develop practical teaching skills, ideas and activities to use in the classroom.
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Gain knowledge of schools through working as a member of your school team.
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Develop the ability to reflect critically and think on their feet.
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Get structured training at no cost to them and little or no extra cost to your school.*
Train staff online and in-school
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Apprentices will receive a 12-month structured programme using on-line and in school training that is specific to their subject and covers the DfE ITE Core Content Framework. On successful completion apprentices will gain QTS.
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This will be followed by a three-month End Point Assessment (EPA) period where an external assessment will be carried out and on successful completion their Level 6 apprenticeship can be awarded.
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They’ll be assigned a personal pathway tutor who will provide them with regular feedback on their progress and coach them on subject knowledge and teaching skill development.
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Apprentices will also be required to dedicate 20% of their week to online subject specific and professional studies training.
Pay little or no programme fees
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Our postgraduate apprenticeship programme cost £9,000 but apprenticeship levy paying schools won't have to pay any course fees*.
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If you’re not a levy paying school, you’ll need to contribute 5% of the fees, which is £450 per apprentice.
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From September 2024, schools that are part of a School Direct partnership may be able to receive grant funding of up to £18,000 per trainee for some specialist subjects including chemistry, computing, mathematics and physics**.
To join our programme your staff must:
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Be employed/have an offer of employment in your school.
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Be assigned an in-school mentor who will support them throughout their apprenticeship.
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Have achieved a standard equivalent to grade 4 in GCSE English language and maths (and science if they’re training to teach at primary level). If apprentices have taken a GCSE equivalency test in maths or English, we'll support them to take functional skills level 2 during their apprenticeship.
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Hold a first degree from a UK higher education institution or equivalent qualification at 2:2 or above.
Interested in doing this apprenticeship yourself?
End Point Assessment
Looking for a reliable End Point Assessment provider?
Book your Level 6 postgraduate teaching apprentices' End Point Assessment with Tes Institute - an established provider of EPA since 2019.
*More details on apprenticeship funding can be found on the DfE website.
** More details on grant funding can be found in the DfE's postgraduate teaching apprenticeship funding manual.