New teaching apprenticeship launches in autumn

A new teaching apprenticeship will launch this autumn, which will offer an alternative route for people to become qualified teachers.

This includes people who may not be able to take time out to study full-time for a degree such as teaching assistants or staff already working in schools, to access this route to a rewarding profession.
 
Trainees on the new Teacher Degree Apprenticeship will spend around 40 per cent of their time studying for their degree with an accredited teacher training provider, gain Qualified Teacher Status and all tuition fees are paid for, so trainees won’t be saddled with the student debt.
                                                                                                                                        
Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, said: “The teacher degree apprenticeship will open up the profession to more people, from those who want a career change to those who are looking for an earn and learn route without student debt.
 
“It will be a game-changing opportunity for schools to nurture and retain talent from the ground up, helping apprentices to gain the knowledge and skills they need to teach future generations."
 
There are almost 400,000 individual teaching assistants in state funded schools in England. The TDA will provide a new route for teaching assistants who do not have an existing degree to train to become a teacher and continue their career progression in the classroom.
 
To support schools to offer the new apprenticeship, the government will launch a pilot scheme working with a small number of schools and teacher training providers to fund up to 150 apprentices to work in secondary schools to teach maths. Training providers will bid to partake in the pilot and trainees will be recruited from this autumn and start their training the following year.
 
Degree level apprenticeships have grown in popularity in recent years with a wide range of opportunities already available including construction, accounting and law.

The Department for Education and the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE) are working with an employer-led trailblazer group to develop the Teacher Degree Apprenticeship to ensure it is high quality and meets the needs of schools.
 
The Teacher Degree Apprenticeship is a four-year training programme and will be available for people to train as primary or secondary teachers. It will build on the Postgraduate Teaching Apprenticeship (PGTA) by offering a work-based route to attaining degree and Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
 
The Teacher Degree Apprenticeship grant funding pilot will be a one-cohort pilot and evidence will be used to inform the future of the programme. Providers and employing schools will be able to develop and run Teacher Degree Apprenticeship courses without additional funding within the same timeframes as the pilot.