Two universities to receive government funding to develop a teacher ‘degree apprenticeship’
Government funding is to be given to two English universities to develop a teacher ‘degree apprenticeship’.
Leeds Trinity and the University of Hertfordshire will receive a portion of the £4.9 million funding available for the 27 projects.
In a statement released by Leeds Trinity, it announces that it expects to start the course in September 2018.
Sheffield Hallam was also listed as developing a ‘teaching’ apprenticeship and Middlesex University as creating a ‘learning and teaching’ apprenticeship.
Degree apprenticeships are structured by combining paid work with higher education, splitting the time between studying and working with an employer.
Speaking to Schools Week, Justine Greening, Secretary of State for Education said that she felt a route into teaching which did not rely on a first undergraduate degree would give “parity of esteem” to more vocational routes.
The Department of Education later clarified to the Chartered College of teaching that ‘no teacher would receive ‘qualified status’ without a degree’.