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)
Initial teacher training (ITT) accreditation: expression of interest

Express an interest in applying to be accredited to deliver ITT courses leading to qualified teacher status from the 2026 to 2027 or 2027 to 2028 academic year.

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Guidance and regulation

Access your teaching qualifications
- Detailed guide
- 22 August 2025
- 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
National professional qualification (NPQ) courses
- Detailed guide
- 16 December 2024
- Department for Education
National professional qualifications frameworks
- Guidance
- 23 February 2024
- Department for Education

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News and communications

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
UN HRC53: Statement on the right to education
- 27 June 2023
- Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
- Speech

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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

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
Early career framework
- 30 January 2024
- Department for Education
- Policy paper

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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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