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The employer will sign an Employer Agreement. This confirms that:

• The employer will provide a qualified and experienced teacher to mentor the apprentice.
• The employer will provide a qualified and experienced teacher as Lead Mentor to support the mentor.
• Both the Mentor and the Lead Mentor will engage in the required online learning that supports their role.
• The apprentice must be released from their role for 40% of their working week across the programme.
• The apprentice’s duties should support their professional development.
• An Employer Agreement, Apprenticeship Agreement and Commitment Statement must be signed with NTU.

These documents outline employer responsibilities, including providing a Mentor and Lead Mentor, and confirm mutual commitments.

Yes. This is a requirement of the levy funding regulations, without which the levy fund cannot be used to support the apprenticeship. It therefore needs to run for at least 47 months from  the start of the apprenticeship in September until the end of the apprenticeship in July nearly four years later.

For the duration of their course, teacher degree apprenticeship trainees must be paid in line with their employing school’s pay policy. In practice this means that the salary must be above the minimum of the unqualified teacher pay range. For more information see the .

Yes, that is possible. Please note that while you can fund this course through your apprenticeship levy contributions, you cannot access the additional grant funding from the Government.  In addition, we will need to consider the curriculum and age range that your proposed apprentice teaches to ensure that this could create a training experience that is fully compliant with ITT regulation.

Unfortunately, no. The apprentice needs to be employed in support of teaching mathematics across the Secondary curriculum and age range in order for this to be fully compliant with ITT regulation.

All attempts should be made to avoid this eventuality. However, we are realistic about the staffing challenges that schools face. As a general rule, if this situation cannot be avoided, we would expect the apprentice to recover the missed training days from their days of employment within a fortnight.

Yes. It is a requirement set out in the ITT Criteria that every trainee teacher gains the experience of different approaches to teaching and to school organisation and management that a second school placement provides. During placement at the second school the apprentice remains employed by their employer but will undertake work in the second school. A second school within the same Multi Academy Trust is acceptable if there is a reasonable contrast between the two placements.

Yes. The construction of the programme will always allow the apprentice to fit their learning activities around their own working and holiday patterns, up to a point. Their off-the-job training days will be Thursdays and Fridays each week.

Yes. However, during these periods the directed learning is asynchronous. In other words, there will not be a requirement for the apprentice to engage with university staff on particular dates and times during the school summer holiday. The summer period of learning will be set up with apprentices in advance of the holiday and drawn back together at the autumn restart sessions.

No. The tuition fees are drawn down by NTU from the employer’s Apprenticeship Levy fund.

Yes. The DfE has confirmed that they will provide a total grant of £44,000  to the employer across the four years of the apprenticeship. This can be used to cover the employer’s costs of employing the apprentice for the 40% of their time during which they need to be engaged in off-the-job training. NTU will be responsible for drawing down and passing on the funding. The DfE has yet to confirm whether grant funding will be made available to support teacher degree apprenticeships in any other Secondary subjects and / or for the Primary phase, but we are hopeful that this will be forthcoming.

Find out more about Salary Grant Funding Guidance for Pilot Providers.

Places on this apprenticeship must be established with an employer in the first instance. The place may be “open” in the sense that the employer has a vacancy on their staffing establishment that they wish to fill with someone who will be join this apprenticeship programme. Alternatively, the place may be “closed” in the sense that the employer has an employee who they wish to join this apprenticeship programme. Interested individuals or schools should contact us at apprenticeships@ntu.ac.uk in the first instance. We will explain the operation of the course, the funding, the requirements of the employer and how the recruitment process operates.

If both the employer and NTU agree to proceed, NTU will create a course profile on the DfE Apply site. The applicant can then apply. They will be assessed by NTU against our entry requirements. Those applying for an “open” place will then be referred to the employer who will take them through their recruitment procedure. Successful candidates receive either an unconditional offer or offer that is conditional on meeting the entry requirements yet to be met. Those successful in obtaining a place on the programme will then submit an Individual Needs Assessment.

You can apply for an “open” place when it is advertised by us on the DfE system. Alternatively, you can look for a job as an unqualified teacher in a school that is willing to place you on this apprenticeship programme.

There is no limit to the total number of places that NTU can offer on this apprenticeship programme. However, the DfE does have a limit to the number of employees to whom it can provide grant funding. For this reason, NTU has 25 places available that are eligible for DfE grant funding in the first instance.

Please get in touch with us at apprenticeships@ntu.ac.uk .