What is involved?
The Secondary SCITT Tuition secondary programme offers a part time training route for a range of subjects. This route is directed particularly at career changers and will offer the opportunity to phase in your training combining it with other
We started the part time programme three years ago as we felt there was a need to support potential high quality trainees into teaching while they continued with their work and family commitments.
We want to encourage as many people into training as a teacher and as did not want only offering a full time course to be a barrier to potential applicants who had the aspiration to become a teacher but did not want to commit to the intensity of a full time ten month training programme.
The recruitment process onto the part time programme is the same as the full time trainees and if you are successful through the recruitment process then you will also be interviewed by a placement school who will be happy to support the training of part time trainees in their school.
The days of the week which you spend in school during your training year can be arranged between you and your placement school and as a SCITT provider, we ask that you attend all of the Core Training and Subject Knowledge days in Year 1 along with the full time trainees. Therefore, there will be some weeks during the first training year when your commitment to the programme will be more than the two days a week in school.
In Year 2, you will be in school three days a week (agreed with your placement school) and that will be your main commitment to the programme apart from a few days spread throughout the training year when you will attend some personalized training days.
Deadlines for assignments and assessment points will be spread across the two years so you will not have the same deadlines as the full-time trainees which will help to make the training more manageable for you.
How does it work?
On this route, you will be in school two days a week in Year 1 in your main placement school during term time. You will start Year 2 in your second placement school on three days a week and then return in January of Year 2 to your main placement school for three days a week. You will receive the same amount of SCITT Tutor visits as the full-time trainees as they will be spread across the two years. At the end of the two years of training you will gain QTS, PGCE and 60 Master's credits.
If you decide to train in a high priority or priority subject, then you will receive a bursary from the government paid to you across 20 months rather than the full time equivalent of 10 months. See more details of bursaries on our Finance page. The tuition fees for the programme are spread across two years and details of each year’s tuition fee can be found on our Finance page .
Why choose the Secondary SCITT Tuition Two Year programme?
You can train with Secondary SCITT Tuition Part Time Programme in the following subjects for Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 (11 - 16) and (14-19)