School Direct fee paying:

School Direct fee paying is a new training route into teaching offered by Southfields Academy and leading to a postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE). The programme was officially launched in September 2012 and Southfields Academy as one of the first schools in the country, is currently training the first cohort of School Direct fee paying trainees.

Your training will last one academic year and will be provided by Southfields Academy and one of our HEI partners - Goldsmiths, St Mary's or the Institute of Education. Your school placements will be either at Southfields Academy or at one of our partner schools in our National Teaching School Alliance - which currently includes a wide range of secondary schools, special schools and a primary school.

The programme will enable you to be trained by our experts in I.T.T. (Initial Teacher Training) as well as benefit from the academic rigour and expertise of the excellent staff at our partner universities. Southfields Academy already has a well-established E.B.I.T.T. (Employment Based Initial Teacher Training) which is graded 'outstanding' by Ofsted and evaluated as the best E.B.I.T.T. in the country by 'The Good Teacher Training Guide - 2011'.

Subjects still available:

Programme Details
We are currently training eight School Direct fee-paying trainees. Their training is provided at Southfields Academy, the relevant HEIs and partner schools. It includes training sessions at Southfields Academy and the HEIs and two school placements of 3-4 months each. School Direct fee paying offers you the best of "both worlds" - practice-based training and mentoring in schools led by outstanding teachers, as well as university-based training and mentoring provided by some of the best academics in the field of education. For further information about the School Direct programme you can also consult the Department of Education website (Click here).

Funding
Places will be self-funded. Although you could be eligible for a tax-free bursary of up to £20,000. bursaries are dependent on the subject you want to teach and the degree class that you hold. Visit the Department for Education website for further details (Click here).

Applications
Applications are through a single entry system managed by the Department of Education, which you can access here.

Mission Statement.
Southfields Academy aims to counter educational disadvantages by creating inspirational teachers, role models and leaders. We are a comprehensive, inner-city school that embraces equal opportunities, inclusiveness and equal access. We teach girls and boys aged 11-19 from diverse social, religious, economic and cultural backgrounds.

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