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QTS - Qualified Teaching Status
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Full Time
Sep 2026
1 Year
If you already have a degree, you can achieve Qualified Teacher Status in just 12 months with Lincoln Bishop's Secondary Teacher Apprenticeship program. This flexible pathway combines practical classroom experience with expert-led training, allowing you to develop essential teaching skills.All of our Secondary Teacher Apprentices work with both a university subject specialist and school-based mentor throughout the program. This dual expertise in your teaching subject is just one way we ensure you develop strong subject knowledge alongside practical classroom skills.This one-year, full-time Initial Teacher Education (ITE) Apprenticeship programme prepares you to teach in your specialist subject in secondary school whilst employed in a school as an Apprentice Teacher. The programme is highly practical and stimulating and allows opportunities to learn the skills of teaching whilst applying your knowledge to real school experiences. Approximately 20% of the course will be spent in centre-based learning at Lincoln Bishop University and is delivered by our experienced and passionate team of teacher educators. The Secondary Teacher Apprenticeship (QTS) programme, provides an ambitious sequenced curriculum, integrating theory and practice. It is underpinned by the DfE’s Initial Teacher Education Core Content Framework (ITTECF). Successful completion of the course enables you to meet the Teacher Standards and all relevant Apprenticeship KSBs, to achieve recommendation for Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
Costs may be covered by government funding and/or your employer – employers who pay the Apprenticeship Levy will pay fees directly through the levy contribution. Alternatively, businesses who do not pay the Levy may be able to claim 95 per cent of the cost of tuition fees from the Government.