Teacher training and professional development

Funding and grants for training. Initial Teacher Training (ITT), Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), teacher subject specialism courses.

Services

Teacher training funding

Teacher training - funding for full or part-time teacher training courses including Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE)
Request a teacher training adviser at an ITT event

How initial teacher training (ITT) providers can request a teacher training adviser to attend a recruitment event.

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Guidance and regulation

Access your teaching qualifications
- Detailed guide
- 22 August 2025
- Department for Education
National professional qualification (NPQ) courses
- Detailed guide
- 16 December 2024
- Department for Education
Qualified teacher status (QTS): qualify to teach in England
- Detailed guide
- 18 June 2025
- Department for Education
Initial teacher training and early career framework
- Guidance
- 30 January 2024
- Department for Education
Promoting and supporting mental health and wellbeing in schools and colleges
- Detailed guide
- 14 July 2025
- Department for Education

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News and communications

The British Council and Turkmenistan Ministry look at modernising English language teaching
- 17 October 2025
- World news story
Celebrating British-Turkmen education collaboration
- 27 March 2025
- World news story
Education Secretary outlines plans to modernise education sector
- 24 January 2025
- Department for Education
- Press release
New teaching apprenticeship set to transform pathway to classroom
- 4 February 2024
- Department for Education
- Press release
New support for teachers powered by Artificial Intelligence
- 30 October 2023
- Department for Education
- Press release

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Research and statistics

Initial teacher education thematic monitoring visits: overview report
- 1 October 2025
- Ofsted
- Research
Initial teacher training performance profiles: 2023 to 2024
- 31 July 2025
- Department for Education
- Official statistics
Teacher and leader development: ECF and NPQs 2024 to 2025
- 10 July 2025
- Department for Education
- Official statistics
Early years initial teacher training programme evaluation
- 26 June 2025
- Department for Education
- Research
Early career framework induction evaluation
- 29 May 2025
- Department for Education
- Research

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Policy papers and consultations

FE teacher training and development: call for evidence
- 17 October 2025
- Department for Education
- Open call for evidence
National Professional Qualifications (NPQ) framework review
- 10 July 2025
- Department for Education
- Call for evidence outcome
International qualified teacher status (iQTS)
- 23 June 2025
- Department for Education
- Policy paper
International qualified teacher status (iQTS): inspection policy
- 12 June 2025
- Department for Education
- Policy paper
ITT core content framework and early career framework: call for evidence
- 25 April 2024
- Department for Education
- Call for evidence outcome

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Transparency and freedom of information releases

Accredited initial teacher training (ITT) providers
- 7 October 2025
- Department for Education
- Transparency
School leadership in England: characteristics and trends
- 2 October 2025
- Department for Education
- Transparency
Funding for national professional qualifications: eligible settings
- 5 September 2025
- Department for Education
- Transparency
Secondary maths teacher degree apprenticeship funding pilot: providers
- 22 May 2025
- Department for Education
- Transparency
iQTS providers: inspection reports
- 15 July 2024
- Department for Education
- Transparency

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