PGCE Postgraduate Teacher Apprenticeship (PGTA) in Primary (3 – 7) with QTS and PGCE 12 months Postgraduate Programme By London Metropolitan University |TopUniversities

Programme overview

Main Subject

Education and Training

Degree

Other

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

This Postgraduate Teacher Apprenticeship (PGTA) in Primary (3-7) will allow you to develop your career with confidence in the school where you are currently employed. This rewarding course prepares you to teach three to seven-year-olds (Key Stage 1). It combines a successful ‘on-the-job’ approach within your current school with the best aspects of a university training route.

For this route you are ideally already in a school and are looking to develop your career further. The programme is a nationally recognised route into teaching, which offers a professional qualification with no tuition fees, primarily for those who have a good understanding of what it means to work in a school and have built up some experience as a teaching assistant or similar role.

On completion of this practical course, you’ll gain Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and the master’s level PGCE. Many of our previous apprentices are still employed in local schools, and many have progressed on to act as mentors, supporting newer trainee teachers.

Please note, you should only apply for this route if you are sponsored by your employer. London Met will not provide a matching service. If you wish to find a school to sponsor you through an apprenticeship, please consider applying via one of our school partnerships.

Programme overview

Main Subject

Education and Training

Degree

Other

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

This Postgraduate Teacher Apprenticeship (PGTA) in Primary (3-7) will allow you to develop your career with confidence in the school where you are currently employed. This rewarding course prepares you to teach three to seven-year-olds (Key Stage 1). It combines a successful ‘on-the-job’ approach within your current school with the best aspects of a university training route.

For this route you are ideally already in a school and are looking to develop your career further. The programme is a nationally recognised route into teaching, which offers a professional qualification with no tuition fees, primarily for those who have a good understanding of what it means to work in a school and have built up some experience as a teaching assistant or similar role.

On completion of this practical course, you’ll gain Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and the master’s level PGCE. Many of our previous apprentices are still employed in local schools, and many have progressed on to act as mentors, supporting newer trainee teachers.

Please note, you should only apply for this route if you are sponsored by your employer. London Met will not provide a matching service. If you wish to find a school to sponsor you through an apprenticeship, please consider applying via one of our school partnerships.

Admission Requirements

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2.7+

You will be required to have:

  • employment as an apprentice teacher in one of our partners schools
  • a UK degree, preferably grade 2.2 or equivalent
  • GCSE English, Mathematics and Science grade C/4 or above, or equivalent* (*if you undertake a GCSE equivalency test, you may also be required to undertake a Functional Skills test as a part of the course)
  • a valid Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Certificate
  • confirmation of Fitness to Teach – a London Metropolitan University health check, which you will be advised to apply for after an offer is made
  • literacy and numeracy tests — these are university-based tests, which you will be asked to undertake at your interview.

A non-UK citizen is usually eligible for funding if they have permission from the UK government to live in the UK (not for educational purposes) and have been ordinarily resident in the UK for at least the previous three years before the start of the apprenticeship.

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