For the 2022/23 recruitment cycle, we have been advised of the following dates:

• 5th October 2021 – Find postgraduate teacher training opens
• 12th October 2021 – Apply for teacher training opens for applications

 To apply for teacher training courses in England you should use Apply for teacher training [linkto: https://www.apply-for-teacher-training.service.gov.uk/], a new GOV.UK service. 

Apply for teacher training is easy to use and gives clear guidance to help potential teachers make strong applications.

To learn more about the new service and to get help with your application, visit Get into Teaching [linkto: https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk].

We recommend early application

If you are interested in applying for a position within Forest Learning Alliance, then please search using Forest Learning Alliance or Uplands Primary School and Nursery. If you have any questions on the programme or the application process, please feel free to contact the team on info@forestlearningalliance.org or call on 01252 873069.

Successful applicants will be offered an interview at one of our schools where they will:

• be interviewed by a Headteacher and a school representative
• be observed working with a group of children
• complete an oral presentation on a topic of their choice

Following success at interview, a School Direct placement will be offered within one of our partner schools.

Covid restrictions may affect the above, in which case, interviews will be held remotely, and details advised at time of invite.

UK qualifications

https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/eligibility-for-teacher-training

School Direct offers a unique training route to achieving qualified teacher status (QTS or PGCE with QTS) and aims to attract the highest quality candidates. To apply for a place on School Direct, you must have:

• A UK undergraduate honours degree or a recognised equivalent qualification
• A GCSE grade C/4 or above (equivalency test accepted) in English Language and mathematics
• A GCSE grade C/4 or above (equivalency test accepted) in a science

Overseas qualifications

If you studied outside of the UK, you should visit the UK ENIC – the UK National Information Centre for the recognition and evaluation of international qualifications and skills website to find out whether your qualifications are of an equivalent level to UK GCSEs, A levels and an undergraduate degree.

Following the UK’s departure from the European Union, the UK NARIC recognition agency function must change from a NARIC (which is an EU-only title) to an ENIC (the wider European title for national recognition agencies), to meet the UK’s continuing treaty obligations under the Lisbon Recognition Convention. Therefore, on 1 March 2021, the UK NARIC agency title becomes UK ENIC, operated and managed by Ecctis Limited.