If you’re considering training to teach with us, first you’ll need to check your eligibility. Eligibility is an important factor to consider when deciding if our training programme is right for you.
Here’s everything you need to know to check your eligibility for our Teacher Training programme before starting your application.
Check your qualifications
The first thing you’ll need to check is that you have the necessary qualifications to train with us. These qualifications are:
- An undergraduate bachelor’s degree with honours, generally a 2:2 or above, or equivalent.
- A GCSE grade 4/C or above in English and maths, or equivalent.
- To teach in a primary school, a GCSE grade 4/C or above in science, or equivalent.
On our Teacher Training Programme, you’ll do your training with one of our local partners. Some of our partners may require you to have a degree and/or A Level related to the subject you wish to teach. If this is the case, we’ll let you know after you’ve submitted your application.
Eligibility as an international candidate
We welcome international candidates onto the programme. You’ll need qualifications equivalent to the ones listed above.
You’ll need to provide an ENIC statement of comparability, which is a document comparing your international qualifications to their UK equivalents. This costs £69.60 and will take 15 days to process from the date ENIC receives your qualification documents and payment. You can apply for your ENIC statement and find out everything you need to know at UK ENIC.
If you want to check your qualifications before applying for an ENIC statement you can contact Get into Teaching for free. They will be able to tell you what your grades are equivalent to.
If you receive an offer to train with us, you’ll need to apply for and send us a physical copy of your ENIC statement of comparability during the application process.
Your right to work in the UK
You must have permission to work in the UK full- time by the start of and for the duration of the training programme. Your right to work in the UK must allow you to train as a teacher: check that your visa is valid for training before applying.
If you need a visa to work in the UK, this is something you need to secure yourself as we can’t sponsor your visa.
After you’ve checked your qualifications and right to work meet our requirements, you can start your Teacher Training programme application.