Teacher Training

At Ashton Higher and Adult Education, we are passionate about ensuring all students have access to the best education. Through our range of teaching courses, we help and support you on your journey to become the best teacher you can be. 

Our teacher training programmes are run in collaboration with the University of Staffordshire, The Associated Merseyside Partnership SCITT and Liverpool Hope University. 

Our Courses:

• PGCE Primary with QTS
• PGCE Primary SEND route with QTS 
• Post Graduate Teaching Apprenticeship - Primary
• PGCE Post 16
• Certificate in Education Post 16 
  
  

Routes to Teaching & COURSE INFORMATION

The PGCE Primary (QTS), PGCE Primary SEND (QTS), and the Postgraduate Teaching Apprenticeship (Primary) are all full-time programmes that take one year to complete. During the course, you will attend sessions at Ashton Sixth Form College and complete two teaching placements at partner schools across the academic year.

The PGCE Post-16 and Certificate in Education Post-16 are part-time programmes. You will attend one lesson per week—either on Tuesday morning or Wednesday evening—and complete a placement within your specialist subject area over the two-year duration of the course. Depending on your subject specialism, it may be possible to complete your placement at our college. This option can be discussed further during your interview.

For the full entry requirements please visit the course pages above. If you are interested in working in education in a role other than teaching or wish to gain qualifications prior to the PGCE, please visit our full list of Higher and Adult Education courses here.

Bursaries

The Department for Education will be offering a Further Education (FE) initial teacher education (ITE) pre-service bursaries programme for the 2024 to 2025 academic year. Tax-free bursaries will be available to trainees who are training pre-service (i.e. before entering paid teaching employment) to teach high-priority subjects in the FE sector in England.

The eligible subjects and bursary values are set out in the table below.

Interested in completing your placement at Ashton?

Please contact the team via email, adulted@asfc.ac.uk stating your name, current course, and why you would like to undertake a placement at Ashton. Please be mindful that trainees on our teacher training courses take priority over external placement applicants.