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PGCE Level 6 Teaching Apprenticeship

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    PGCE 16 months full-time

Course Description

This apprenticeship is intended for teaching staff who are employed by a primary or a secondary school and already have a degree, but do not yet have a teaching qualification or Qualified Teacher Status and wish to attain this.

The apprentice’s employer will work with us to set up and support the apprenticeship place. The employer will be responsible for ensuring that there is a qualified teacher at their school who will act as the apprentice’s mentor, and for ensuring that the apprentice can be released from their employment duties for a suitable proportion of their working week (usually one day a week).

The apprentice will need to be employed full time as an unqualified teacher for a minimum of 30 hours per week and for a minimum of 16 months from the start of the apprenticeship. We will need to check that the apprentice will have sufficient responsibility for sizeable classes of students during their apprenticeship year, teaching an age-appropriate curriculum.

An apprentice’s pay at all times must be in line with the minimum wage or above and the employer’s pay policy (noting that the employer may be a single academy or a multi-academy trust, or a local authority):

  • if the employer is an academy trust, the salary must be in line with what is paid to unqualified teachers;
  • if the employer is a local authority, the salary must be between the minimum and maximum of the unqualified teacher pay range.’

Entry Requirements

The prospective Primary Apprentice must meet the standard entry requirements for all ITT courses, as set out by the DfE;

  • This includes a UK degree or equivalent
  • It also includes GCSE English, Mathematics and Science at minimum grade 4 or equivalent. Applicants with pending qualifications will be considered, but the qualification must be attained prior to enrolment. GCSE English Literature does not meet the requirement, and anyone with English Literature but not English Language will need to undertake an English GCSE equivalency test. Anyone who is unable to provide the required GCSE certificate will need to complete a relevant equivalency test prior to enrolment.

The prospective Secondary Apprentice must meet the standard entry requirements for all ITT courses, as set out by the DfE;

  • This includes a UK honours degree or equivalent
  • It also includes GCSE English and Mathematics at minimum grade 4 or equivalent. Applicants with pending qualifications will be considered, but the qualification must be attained prior to enrolment. GCSE English Literature does not meet the requirement, and anyone with English Literature but not English Language will need to undertake an English equivalency test. Anyone who is unable to provide the required GCSE certificate will need to complete a relevant equivalency test prior to enrolment.

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Programme Funding

You might be able to get a scholarship to help fund your studies. We award scholarships to those students who can demonstrate excellent achievement, passion and dedication to their studies.

Module Details

Primary Apprenticeship Modules
  • Learning to be a teacher
  • Learning to teach
  • Learning to teach a subject
Secondary Apprenticeship Modules
  • Learning to be a teacher
  • Learning to teach
  • Learning to teach a subject

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