Failure to disclose criminal convictions may lead to offers of assessment being withdrawn. It is not possible to accept applicants who have previously failed a QTS assessment or withdrawn from a QTS programme unless there are exceptional circumstances. If this applies to you, please provide a written explanation and also provide the contact details of your previous training provider.

Please let us know if you have already passed your skills tests

Please give details of previous employment. Please start with your current employment.

Full employment history must be given and any gaps explained. NB You must have been employed as an unqualified teacher for approximately 2 years in 2 different schools in at least 2 key stages (these do not need to be consecutive).

Both referees should be educational professionals (one of which must be someone who has observed you teaching). You must have references from 2 different schools who have employed you.

Data Protection Act, 1998: The information that you have supplied will be processed and held on computer. The data may be processed for the purpose of compiling statistics, and passed to the Higher Education Statistical Agency and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. By signing and returning this application form you will be deemed to be giving your consent to the processing of data contained within it and the use of that data for the lawful purposes approved for the institutions to which it is supplied.

I confirm that the information I have given on this form is true, complete and accurate and no information requested, or other material information, has been omitted.