皇冠体育app

Schools and local authorities can employ apprentices to do the postgraduate teaching apprenticeship.

This is an initial teacher training (ITT) route leading to qualified teacher status (QTS).

皇冠体育app apprentices are trainee teachers. 皇冠体育appy combine paid work with on and off-the-job training.

You can recruit as many apprentices as you like. But make sure you have the capacity to support them, particularly their off-the-job training.

You need to work with an accredited ITT provider. 皇冠体育appy will train the apprentice. 皇冠体育appre is separate guidance for聽ITT providers.

Guidance for candidates who want to聽 is available on the Get Into Teaching website.

Choose a provider

You need to work with an accredited provider to train the apprentice. 皇冠体育appse are higher education institutes or school-centred initial teacher training providers, who have been accredited to offer ITT.

You must choose a provider on the聽apprenticeship provider and assessment register聽that is also either:

• accredited by DfE聽to deliver ITT聽leading to QTS
• subcontracted to a provider that is accredited by聽DfE聽to deliver聽ITT聽leading to QTS

To check a specific provider, email聽[email protected].

Plan the apprenticeship

Check that apprentices meet the聽ITT entry requirements before they start. 皇冠体育appse are the same as for other teacher training routes.

You must agree the overall structure of the apprenticeship with the provider before the apprentice starts.

You can employ an apprentice at any point in the academic year, but the apprenticeship should last for at least 9 months.

皇冠体育app apprentice must spend a minimum of 20% of their paid hours in off-the-job training. This is approximately 278 hours.

This includes developing the knowledge, skills, values and behaviours set out in the聽teachers鈥� standards.

Before the apprenticeship starts, you must have:

• an apprenticeship agreement with the apprentice
• a training provider
• a training plan agreed between the apprentice and the training provider

More information about the apprenticeship agreement is available in the聽funding rules for employers and employer-providers.

Get funding support

You can use apprenticeships funding to support your teaching apprentices. You can get more grant funding for teaching apprenticeships in priority subjects.

皇冠体育appre is more information in the postgraduate teaching apprenticeships funding manual.

Pay the apprentice

You are responsible for:

• paying the apprentice鈥檚 salary
• clearly advertising salary rates before you employ apprentices

You should pay apprentices as full-time employees, or on a pro-rata basis for part-time employees.

Maintained schools

You must pay apprentices at least the minimum of the unqualified teachers鈥� pay range for the training period.

Initial teacher training criteria has more information on this.

Non-maintained schools, academies and free schools

You can adopt pay arrangements that reflect your local circumstances, if you meet all statutory requirements.

Contact

Email ITT[email protected] to discuss the postgraduate teaching apprenticeship route.