Alternative teacher training and leadership career opportunities
Explore your next steps
There’s more than one way to build a career with purpose.
Below, you’ll find alternative routes into teaching, alongside other graduate programmes focused on leadership and social impact. Each offers the opportunity to develop your skills and make a meaningful difference.
Other ways to get into teaching
If you’re committed to becoming a teacher, these routes may help you take the next step.
Get Into Teaching
The Department for Education’s official service providing guidance on routes into teaching in England, including university-led and school-based training options.
School-Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) with Teach First
Train to teach in a school near you through our school-based teacher training route.
Find out more about our SCITT programme
Postgraduate Teaching Apprenticeship (PGTA) with Teach First
Earn while you train through our apprenticeship route into teaching, combining classroom experience with academic study.
Explore our teaching apprenticeship
Now Teach
Supports career changers to retrain as teachers, helping experienced professionals move into the classroom.
Other leadership opportunities
If you’re passionate about tackling inequality beyond the classroom, you may also wish to explore:
Civil Service Fast Stream
A leadership development programme offering roles across UK government, working on policies and services that shape society.
Visit the Civil Service Fast Stream
Police Now
Graduate programmes focused on community leadership and improving outcomes in policing and public service.
Visit Police Now
Tiney
A training programme and business admin platform for setting up and running childminding settings, helping people become successful early years educators.
Visit Tiney
Unlocked Graduates
A leadership development programme working in prisons to reduce reoffending and create safer communities.
Visit Unlocked Graduates
Stay connected
You can continue supporting our mission to address educational inequality by staying connected.
Follow Teach First on social media to hear about future opportunities, impact stories and ways to get involved:
We wish you every success as you continue working towards a career that makes a difference.