Recommendation 17

HM Government · verbatim extract Accepted

Salaried teacher training is an important part of the initial teacher training (ITT) offer. Both School Direct (salaried) (SDS) and the Postgraduate teaching apprenticeship (PGTA) will continue to be available from academic year 2025/26. We are working closely with providers and schools to ensure candidates have the right information about salaried routes into teaching, and candidates from all backgrounds are supported to access courses. To help grow provision, providers offering the Postgraduate Teaching Apprenticeship are now able to access increased grant funding equivalent to the bursary in chemistry, computing, mathematics, physics, French, German and Spanish. This is in addition to the £9,000 apprenticeships levy funding. While we set targets for postgraduate initial teacher training entrants by subject, we do not currently break this down by route. In February 2024, the Teacher Degree Apprenticeship (TDA) was announced. This is a new route into the teaching profession which will enable successful candidates to ‘earn while they learn’, attain an undergraduate degree and qualified teacher status (QTS) while employed in a school. The TDA standard was published in spring 2024 and we expect applications for candidates to be published from autumn 2024, with training commencing in autumn 2025. The TDA will be open to school leavers, career changers and existing education support workers. The TDA will enable talented and capable non-teaching staff to become excellent teachers. We have published information about the TDA on the Get Into Teaching website and we will shortly publish a TDA page on GOV.UK to support prospective providers and employing schools to design, develop and deliver TDA courses.