Postgraduate Teacher Apprenticeship with QTS and PGCE

This apprenticeship-levy funded course provides a route to Qualified Teacher Status and optional PGCE.

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Course overview

  • 2025
  • 2026
  • Full-time
  • Sep, 1 year
  • Jan, 1 year
  • Apprenticeship
  • Apprenticeship
  • PGCE
  • PGCE
  • Online
  • Online
  • *See below for full fee information

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    Entry Requirements

    • Have a UK degree*
    • Have lived in the UK for three years (exceptions can be made sometimes) 
    • For entry onto our apprenticeship you need English and Maths GCSE (and science if Primary). Equivalences are acceptable IF approved by the Department for Education, including overseas qualifications.
    • You must be teaching your subject for a minimum of 13 hours per week across two consecutive key stages and 6 weeks at 80% of a typical timetable in your school.
    • Your school cannot be rated Inadequate by Ofsted.
    • You must be eligible to work in England as an unqualified teacher.
    • You do not already have QTS but are working in a school in England.

    *For equivalent qualifications, contact education@buckingham.ac.uk to confirm that your qualifications meets the University entry requirements.

    In addition, you must:

    • Demonstrate competence in literacy and numeracy before and during the course.
    • Attend an interview as part of the initial assessment.
    • Obtain the commitment from your school to release you for a second school placement. The second school placement must be a contrasting school where you will spend a minimum of three weeks (15 full days) teaching.
    • Your school must provide a suitable mentor.
    • Provide a satisfactory criminal record check (DBS) and show the physical and mental fitness to teach.
    • Complete a minimum of 120 days in a school.

    If you work in a special needs school

    We train teachers from Special Schools as well as SEND teachers in all schools. If you teach children a curriculum which is normally taught to younger children than your classes (e.g. you teach pupils aged 12-14 a Key Stage 2 curriculum) you will need to do a second school placement in a mainstream school where you can teach an age-appropriate curriculum.