Welcome

Welcome to the May edition of the Teacher Recruitment Bulletin from the Department for Education (DfE).

Contents

1. Updated guidance on forming ITT partnerships and funding

Updated guidance on forming ITT partnerships and ITT reform funding was published on GOV.​UK last week.

The partnership guidance now includes additional information on:

The ITT reform funding guidance provides minor updates to the set-up grants and sets out further detail on the delivery grants available for the 2024 to 2025 academic year.

Read the partnerships guidance: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-itt-forming-partnerships

Read further guidance on ITT reform funding: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-reform-funding-guidance

2. New reports in the Manage teacher training applications (Manage) service

ITT providers will now be able to access the following reports recently released in Manage:

We’ve developed these reports in response to requests from ITT providers for more information about the characteristics of candidates who apply to their organisations. With these reports, providers can now get a better understanding of their candidates’ decisions on their applications.

If you’re an ITT provider, log in to Manage to view these reports: https://www.apply-for-teacher-training.service.gov.uk/provider/reports

3. Applications are now open for Teacher Training Scholarships in chemistry

Candidates wanting to teach chemistry can apply for a Teacher Training scholarship from the Royal Society of Chemistry. This scholarship will give trainees support through their training year and beyond.

Successful candidates get £29,000 tax-free funding and access to:

Scholarships are also available in physics, maths, computing and languages and applications are open across all subjects.

Find out more about teacher training scholarships from the Royals Society of Chemistry:
https://www.rsc.org/prizes-funding/funding/find-funding/teacher-training-scholarships

For further information on other scholarship programmes visit: https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/funding-and-support/scholarships-and-bursaries

For any enquiries please contact teach@rsc.org

4. Early Years Initial Teacher Training (EYITT) Evaluation

DfE are pleased to announce that IFF research has been appointed as the evaluation partner for the increased EYITT places element of the Early Years Education Recovery Programme. As part of this programme, EYITT was allocated additional funding for Academic Years 2022 to 2023 and 2023 to 2024, which has meant that DfE has funded more places for these two academic years.

The evaluation will include surveys and interviews with providers and trainees. EYITT providers with an interest in this have been sent information directly. IFF will contact providers from mid-May.

If you have any questions, please contact us at eyitt.GENERALENQUIRIES@education.gov.uk

More information on IFF Research: https://www.iffresearch.com/

5. Special schools and alternative provision for ITT

Guidance has been published for accredited ITT providers and their partners, to support the appropriate involvement of special schools and alternative provision in ITT. The guidance also applies to pupil referral units and mainstream schools with SEN resource units.

Read the guidance: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-special-schools-and-alternative-provision

6. Teaching Vacancies update: Direct marketing campaign to trainee teachers

The direct marketing campaign supporting trainee teachers through their job-hunting journey has been a success. Open rates from emails sent from Teaching Vacancies peaked at a high of 69% and over 6,000 trainee teachers set up a job alert.

Next October the campaign will be running again, alongside employability webinars – providers should get in touch if they would like to get involved: william.bourke@education.gov.uk

You can find Teaching Vacancies here: https://teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk

7. Talk to us about hosting ITT school placements

We want to speak to schools who host ITT placements for trainee teachers. We would like to hear about current experiences of organising, overseeing, and recording information about school placements, and how you work with ITT providers, trainees, and mentors as part of this. Your feedback will inform potential improvements to support schools and ITT providers to organise placements for trainee teachers.

We would be very grateful if the members of staff responsible for ITT in your school, could spare an hour to speak with us.

Send Edd Dixon (Edd.DIXON@education.gov.uk) an email to express interest.

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