School Direct is a new route into teaching. Whether you have just finished a degree, or have been working in a career for many years School Direct offers a brilliant teacher training opportunity. You will be based in one school, learning on the job with and alongside outstanding practitioners. Successful completion of a School Direct course with the East Kent Learning Alliance (EKLA ) will lead to the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS)
The East Kent Learning Alliance (EKLA) is a Teaching School, comprising of a partnership of secondary and primary schools, that is engaging with schools and accredited providers to recruit high quality trainees and to providing a rich training programme. EKLA is committed to helping improve the lives of the young people that it serves in East Kent and believes that the recruitment and development of the workforce of the future will help us to achieve this aim.
We are working in partnership with an accredited body, Canterbury Christ Church University and all successful applicants will be enrolled as CCCU students. EKLA will be offering the following elements of the programme:
School |
Salaried Places |
Non-salaried Places |
Blean Primary School |
Primary General Primary General |
|
Canterbury High School |
English Maths Chemistry |
Art Business Studies PE Music |
Canterbury Primary School |
Primary General | |
Capel-Le-Ferne Primary School |
Primary General | |
Chartham Primary School |
|
Primary Gemeral |
Chatham & Clarendon House Grammar School |
|
MFL (Spanish) PE Maths Physics Chemistry |
Chilton Academy Primary School |
|
Primary General Primary General |
Christ Church CE Junior School |
Primary General Primary General |
|
Dane Court Grammar School |
Art MFL English Maths Chemistry |
|
Hartsdown Academy |
English Maths Maths Physics |
|
Herne Bay High School |
English Maths |
Geography PE Religious Education Music MFL (French) Art |
Herne Bay Junior School |
Primary General Primary General |
|
Joy Lane Primary School |
Primary General Primary General |
|
King Ethelbert School | Maths |
MFL (Spanish) Chemistry English Geography Physics History Maths |
Lydden Primary School |
Primary General | |
Newington Primary School |
Primary General Primary General |
|
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School |
MathsDesign TechnologyMFL (Spanish)Biology |
PEPhysics |
River Primary School |
|
Primary General Primary General |
Royal Harbour Academy |
English Maths Physics Chemistry History Design Technology Art Religious Education Music Computing
|
English Maths Physics Chemistry PE Design Technology Art Religious Education Music Computing |
St Anselm's Catholic School |
English | |
St Crispins Infant School |
Primary General | |
St Georges CEP School Sheppy |
General Primary | |
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School |
Primary General |
|
St Nicholas At Wade CE Primary School |
Primary General | |
St Stephen's Infant School |
Primary General |
|
Upton Junior School |
Primary General |
Primary General |
White Cliffs Primary School |
Primary General |
Degree
GCSEs
Overseas Qualifications
Work Experience - Salaried Route
For details about the equivalency test please see link below.
http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/admissions/gcse-equivalency-tests/gcse-equivalency-tests.aspx
Applicants to all ITT courses will be required to pass QTS skills tests before starting their course. Applicants can register for the skills tests once they have submitted their application. We strongly advise applicants to take the tests as soon as possible after submitting an application.
You will find information on:
http://sta.education.gov.uk/
Booking a skills test:
www.skillstestbooking.com/sta-web/registration?execution=e1s1
All candidates for secondary Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science and MFL who do not have a degree in the subject they want to train to teach, will be required to undertake a subject knowledge enhancement course (SKE). These are run by Canterbury Christ Church University for free, details of which can be found at http://www.canterbury.ac.uk/study-here/train-to-teach/subject-knowledge-enhancement.asp
Clearance from the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB)
We have a duty to protect children and vulnerable adults. If you are offered a place on the School Direct programme, you will be asked to apply for an Enhanced Disclosure certificate from the CRB as a requirement of entry to the course. This document will contain details of any cautions, convictions, reprimands, warnings or bindovers recorded against your name (even where they would ordinarily be considered spent) or confirm that you have none. It will allow us to make an assessment of your suitability for access to these vulnerable groups.
Applicants who do not hold a UK or EU passport might not be eligible for funding. International students not holding an EU or UK passport are only eligible for Salaried School Direct places. Applicants must hold the relevant work visa.
The funding available to you will depend upon which School Direct route and which subject you choose. It is also affected by what degree you hold.
School Direct Salaried: You will be paid a salary by the school in which you train. This salary will be in line with the unqualified teacher pay ranges - UQ1 (£16,461 for 2016). You will not need to pay fees to cover the cost of your qualified teacher status (QTS) award. You will not be eligible for a training bursary.
School Direct non salaried: You could be eligible for a tax-free bursary of up to £30,000, depending on the subject you want to teach and the degree class that you hold. You will need to pay tuition fees to cover the cost of your course.
Non-Supported Trainees – Self Funded
When is a trainee fundable by NCTL?
Where they are able to access student support i.e. assessed as ‘home or EU status’ for the purpose of assessing tuition fee status or are home or overseas/international School Direct Salaried trainees on an allocated place and employed in a state maintained school in a priority subject. All trainees that are able to access student support will be assessed as fundable by NCTL whether they draw down the support or not.
When are they not fundable by NCTL?
Where they are assessed as ‘overseas or international’ for the purpose of assessing tuition fees status, or are School Direct Salaried Trainees (home or overseas) on a non-allocated place or undertaking a lower priority, (non NCTL funded) subject and/or employed at a Private School.
Tuition Fee Routes
Scholarships
Scholarships are available in physics, Secondary mathematics, computing, chemistry, geography, modern foreign languages for trainees who are starting their training in the 2017/18 academic year. These prestigious awards are aimed at high quality graduates with a 2:1 and above, who are passionate about their subject and have the potential to be inspirational teachers.
Subject |
Amount |
|
---|---|---|
Physics - 2:1 or first |
£30,000 |
|
Secondary mathematics, computing, chemistry, geography, modern foreign languages – 2:1 or first |
£27,500 |
Graduates with a 2:1 and above, who are passionate about their subject and have the potential to be inspirational teachers can apply for a scholarship with the appropriate professional body. As well as the financial award, scholars will receive a package of additional benefits provided by the professional bodies.
Trainees with a 2:2 may be awarded a scholarship in exceptional circumstances, if they have significant relevant experience.
Trainees awarded a scholarship cannot receive a bursary. Trainees who aren’t awarded a scholarship are eligible for a standard bursary.
Bursaries
Eligibility 2017 to 2018 (1) |
Trainee with 1st/PhD |
2:1/Master’s |
2:2 |
Other |
---|---|---|---|---|
Physics |
£30,000 |
£25,000 |
£25,000 |
£0 |
Secondary mathematics, classics, computing, geography, modern foreign languages |
£25,000 |
£25,000 |
£25,000 |
£0 |
Chemistry |
£25,000 |
£20,000 |
£20,000 |
£0 |
Biology |
£15,000 |
£12,000 |
£10,000 |
£0 |
Design and technology |
£12,000 |
£9,000 |
£0 |
£0 |
English |
£9,000 |
£9,000 |
£0 |
£0 |
History, music, religious education |
£9,000 |
£4,000 |
£0 |
£0 |
Primary mathematics (2) |
£6,000 |
£6,000 |
£6,000 |
£0 |
Primary |
£3,000 |
£0 |
£0 |
£0 |
A training bursary for final year undergraduates of £9,000 is available for trainees on courses in secondary mathematics and physics that lead to qualified teacher status (QTS). The bursary is available to undergraduate trainees who enrol on a QTS course starting in the 2017 to 2018 academic year, and is payable in the final year of their course.
The same £9,000 training bursary is available to trainees on an opt-in secondary undergraduate mathematics, physics, computing or modern foreign language course that leads to QTS. The bursary is available to undergraduate trainees who enrol on a QTS course in the 2017 to 2018 academic year, and is payable in the final year of their course.
For both of these courses, trainees who are on a 4-year undergraduate course that leads to the award of QTS and that also leads to the award of a Master’s degree receive a £9,000 bursary in both the third and fourth years of their course.
More information and guidance on the bursaries can be found at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/funding-initial-teacher-training-itt-academic-year-2017-to-18
Applications for September 2017 open in October via UCAS.
Applications for 2017 -18 places are managed by UCAS through a single admissions system.
Please follow this link for detailed information:http://www.ucas.com/how-it-all-works/teacher-training
For more details and information please book onto one of our School Direct information evenings:
20th October 2016 The Canterbury Primary School 6:00 pm
22nd November 2016 King Ethelbert School, Birchington 6:00 pm
31st January 2017 Herne Bay High School 6:00 pm