Tes Institute Blog

Teaching is a rewarding career where you can have a big impact on young people’s lives. In this blog, we explore how you can become a teacher in Scotland.

Are you looking for the best way into teaching? Learn all about the various routes into teaching, as well as the qualification requirements to teach in England.

Learn about the qualifications required to become a teacher from a teaching assistant, as well as the various routes into teaching specific to TAs.

Learn about the various qualifications needed to become a secondary school teacher and the different routes into teaching with Tes.

Do you have talented TAs, HTLAs, unqualified teachers or other support staff that you know could become great teachers? Our Straight to Teaching course is a unique professional development programme that supports suitable school staff to gain QTS while they continue to work at your school.

As recruitment for trainee teachers becomes increasingly challenging, it’s ever more important that – as a teacher training provider – you use every opportunity to promote yourself and your training courses.

In line with efforts to enhance training and professional development for teaching staff, the UK government have announced that the school-centred initial teacher training (ITT) route, School Direct, has been renamed and is now called Initial Teacher Training (ITT).

If you want to become a special needs teacher at a SEN or SEND school, you’re probably already aware of how rewarding an experience it can be. There are challenges, of course, but the teaching experiences can be some of the most memorable and gratifying.

Over 2,000 teaching professionals have followed our Straight to Teaching route to becoming qualified teachers.

“What can I earn as a new teacher” is often a question we are asked when talking to people about our courses. The answer isn’t a straightforward one as the salary you receive may vary depending on your location and other factors, but there is a specific pay scale put in place for state-run schools that gives some indication of what you can expect as an ECT.

If you want to become a teacher, then it’s ideal to have a degree in the subject you want to teach. Tes Institute investigates what happens when this is not the case.

Oliver Moore – Unqualified Music teacher to Computer teacher: “I hadn’t even considered becoming a fully qualified teacher until Straight to Teaching.”