Training teachers. Shaping futures.

Our teacher training programme is ambitious, flexible, and designed to prepare you for the challenges and rewards of 21st-century teaching.

With United Teaching, you build classroom experience from day one and gain a PGCE and QTS in 12 months.

With more than 100 schools across England, you can become a teacher in a location that suits you.

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Become a teacher | Train to teach

United Teaching is a school-based teacher training programme designed to give you the best start for your teaching career. As an Ofsted Outstanding provider, we develop outstanding teachers. 

Our one-year programme offers salaried, salaried apprentice, and self-funded teacher training for aspiring primary and secondary educators. With over 100 schools nationwide, you can train to teach in a location that suits you.  

As a United Teaching trainee, you will be immersed in your school from day one. You will spend the year gaining first-hand experience and refining your skills as you go. We are committed to bringing out the ‘Best in Everyone’, and we support you every step of the way with research-led training, mentorship, subject-knowledge development, and wellbeing support, so you have everything you need to excel in your teaching career.

Thousands of successful teachers have completed our programme to get into teaching, and you could be next.

Course fees

QTS and PGCE: £9,000

QTS only: £7,250

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Ofsted Outstanding Provider

Ofsted rated ‘Outstanding’ teacher training provider

We are delighted to have been rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted!

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Trainees receive the highest standards of training and education

Ofsted report

an ambitious, rigorous and extremely successful training programme

Ofsted report

Well-being is right at the top of leaders’ priorities

Ofsted report

a strong focus on subject expertise and subject pedagogy

Ofsted report

Many trainees said that their mentors ‘are amazing'

Ofsted report

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