Our courses 

The Surrey Downs Partnership offers programmes whereby trainees apply directly to the our partnership and, if successful, train and work within their partnership schools. Schools, therefore, have more control over the quality of training, which is provided, and how it is delivered. You will have an extended placement at your host school, meaning you become far more integrated as a member of staff at the school of your choice. This is supplemented by a shorter second placement, where we will work with you to arrange the best contrasting, local placement within one of our partner schools. We guarantee an interview for any relevant post in a partnership school for those who are successful on the programme with us.

What are the routes?

• The non-salaried route is open to all graduates and is funded by competitive government bursaries (subject dependent) and tuition fees paid by the graduate through the student loan scheme.

• In addition, a new Post Graduate Teacher Apprenticeship' (PGTA) is now on offer. It is for experienced professional and graduates seeking to become teachers in primary or secondary schools. The course runs for 12 months. This is made up of 80% on-the-job school-based training (Monday to Thursday) and 20% off-the-job university directed study (Friday)

• Our programmes will lead you to gaining both Qualified Teacher Status & a PGCE (with masters level credits) in conjunction with our partnership universities