Our PGCE route offers student teachers both QTS and a university qualification but is delivered and assessed by us in a school environment. Bedfordshire Schools' Training Partnership currently has 26 secondary places in six subjects.

 

Our GTP programme is an employment based route into secondary teaching. Trainee teachers are employed by a local school during the training year and follow their training course largely within that school. This route offers trainee teachers QTS at the end of their training. We currently have 24 secondary GTP places in a range of subjects available.

 

The 2008 / 2009 training course will work to the 'Q Standards' for QTS - recently publised by the TDA.

 

Support for our trainees :

 

- a dedicated mentor within your placement school.

- weekly Subject Knowledge for Teaching (SKfT) development sessions.

- weekly Professional Studies development sessions.

- access to the full range of University of Bedfordshire facilities - including the library (PGCE trainees)

- access to the University of Bedfordshire library (GTP trainees)

 

- termly visits from all SKfT Subject Course Leaders and our Quality Assurance team to monitor and support trainee  progress and development.