Initial Teacher Training - Primary & Secondary

Cass School of Education and Communities

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Welcome to the Cass School of Education and Communities

We are immensely proud to bear the distinguished name of Sir John Cass and we invite to you join in our passion for the education, welfare and development of communities in and around London. The Cass School of Education and Communities is a highly successful provider of education, early childhood, special needs, social work and teacher training programmes. We also play a key role in the provision of education services and professional development throughout east London and beyond. We promote a strong research culture, building on our reputation for innovation within education and communities.

Helen Masterton Dean of the Cass School of Education and Communities

A number of the academic staff within the Cass School of Education and Communities are nationally and internationally renowned as leaders in their fields and are involved in high-profile projects. Many have published leading books on education, early childhood, special needs, social work and teacher training. These are the tutors that will be lecturing, tutoring and supporting you during your studies within our state-of-the-art facilities, on a campus in the heart of vibrant Stratford.

Each year we have over 1,500 students studying for undergraduate degrees in the Cass School of Education and Communities; we train more than 500 teachers and 80 social workers, and we support the continuing professional development of over 350 practicing teachers. We work with partners across the world and in each continent. The University of East London boasts students from over 100 countries, with 120 languages spoken on our campuses. We warmly invite you to become a part of this thriving, growing community.

I look forward to meeting you.

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Top 3 reasons for studying at Cass School of Education and Communities

1 What makes us so unique is our extraordinary east London location. Set in the heart of this thriving, diverse, multicultural community, the school offers current and relevant opportunities and experiences to enhance your skills for employment.

2 We’ve earned an excellent reputation for working in partnership with schools to prepare teachers to work in multi-ethnic and multilingual urban schools.

3 Our dedicated staff are nationally and internationally renowned as leaders in their fields.

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Teaching & learning in the Cass School of Education and Communities:

How you will learn Most of the teaching takes place in specialist seminar groups with some lectures that last usually one hour. All sessions have input from specialist tutors with opportunities to discuss curriculum knowledge and practice, and practical opportunities to try things out. Often tutors will model approaches to teaching that you will be encouraged to employ during your teaching placements.

The school based element of your training will include opportunities to observe ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ practice in schools. You will be supported in identifying the features of good or outstanding practice, and encouraged to draw on these in your own practice.

Support for your learning You are supported throughout your training by outstanding teachers, have a school based mentor and a subject tutor from UEL who will be an expert specialist in the field. All of these will be dedicated to your development as a high quality reflective practitioner.

Our Academic staff You are supported throughout your training by outstanding teachers. You will have a school based mentor and a tutor from UEL who will be an expert specialist in the field. All of these will be dedicated to your development as a high quality reflective practitioner.

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Initial Teacher Training UEL is one London’s leading centres for teacher training, offering highly successful courses for primary, secondary and post-compulsory levels. Capitalising on our east London location, we’ve earned an excellent reputation for preparing teachers to work in multi-ethnic and multilingual urban schools.

Why us?

At UEL, you’ll be working among a diverse community of students as we strive to bring to east London a teacher workforce that reflects the multicultural local community. In fact, we’re the only initial teacher education provider in the country that meets the Equality and Diversity and Disability benchmark.

The acclaimed Cass School of Education and Communities is based at our Stratford campus in a purpose-built building that was designed with input from our tutors. In both lay-out and furnishings, the multi-purpose classrooms mirror those in which you’ll teach during your training and your future career.

Our courses were formulated in conjunction

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with the local authorities in east London.

The primary and secondary teacher training courses are structured differently to each other but both are designed to enable you to become a confident, proficient and reflective teacher as quickly as possible.

So successful has UEL been in training teachers that our alumni include head teachers and senior managers. It’s highly possible that your school mentor on your teacher training placement will be a UEL graduate.

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Primary Teacher Training (PGCE) Our primary teacher education programmes are designed for graduates who are passionate about the idea of becoming primary teachers.

East London offers multicultural, multilingual and particularly vibrant school settings in which to learn, but your training at UEL will equip you with the skills to be able to teach anywhere in England.

UEL’s programme team comprises experienced primary practitioners who have worked in a range of primary and early years settings across London as classroom teachers, curriculum co-ordinators, advisory teachers and school leaders.

Another reason take your Primary PGCE at UEL is that you will be working among a diverse community of students. That’s because part of our mission is that we are looking to bring to East London a teacher workforce that reflects the local community.

For example, 24% of our Primary PGCE intake in 2013-14 were male trainees, compared to 20% with other London providers and 21% across the Initial Teacher Training (ITT) sector.

You grow to expect the unexpected in east London.

Therefore, when the unexpected confronts you in your teaching career, you will know all about it. You get a richer experience in east London, in particular working with pupils from minority ethnic backgrounds and pupils for whom English is an additional language.

Andrew Read, Head of Primary Initial Teacher Education

For more information please visit:

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Programmes

Early Years (3–7) PWR UCAS code: X126

Three reasons why you should study Primary PGCE at UEL

Primary with English UCAS code: XQ1H

Primary with English as an Additional Language UCAS code: X105

ICT Computing UCAS code: 2CZ2

Primary with Mathematics UCAS code: XG1C

Primary with Modern Languages UCAS code: XRC9

Primary with Music UCAS code: 2CYY

Physical Education PWR UCAS code: 2MZL

Primary with Religious Education and Humanities

1 A huge 94% of trainees on the

Primary PGCE course at UEL in the 2012-13 academic year were in a teaching post within six months of completing the programme.

2 UEL has a particularly strong track record of supporting men and trainees from culturally diverse groups to gain Qualified Teacher Status.

3 In September 2014, the London

Borough of Redbridge recruited its highest number of Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) to date - 132. Of these, 30% came from UEL.

UCAS code: 2CYZ

Primary with Science UCAS code: 2CZ3

Primary with SEN Inclusion and SEN Special Schools UCAS code: X1L5

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Secondary Teacher Training (PGCE) Our secondary teacher education courses are designed for graduates who are passionate about the idea of becoming secondary teachers.

We work very closely with our partner schools to design, deliver and quality-assure provision.

By working alongside local schools in our region, we’re making a significant contribution to meeting the teacher supply requirements in our local area. Many of our students are offered teaching posts by our partner schools.

Our schools partnerships network covers a wide range of schools: inner-city, suburban, mixed and single sex, inclusive, non-selective and selective and high-achieving, as well as those in more challenging environments.

We welcome all applicants and our completion rates are very high. We have a particularly strong track record of supporting men and trainees from culturally diverse groups to gain Qualified Teacher Status.

Three reasons why you should study Secondary PGCE at UEL

1 The Cass School of Education and Communities trains approximately 800 teachers and social workers every year. You’ll be joining a department with a long and impressive track record.

2 We work with more than 100

schools across east London, offering you a vast range of educational establishments in which to develop your classroom skills on placement.

3 94.1 per cent of our trainees

were in a teaching post within six months of completing the course, which is ahead of the ITT sector average across secondary subject areas.

We’re one of only a few institutions that provide a range of subject knowledge enhancement programmes to prepare you for teaching your specialist subject.

The teaching year begins in September and ends in July. Students attend five days a week and spend the equivalent of 24 weeks in schools.

For more information please visit:

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Postgraduate Programmes Community Languages

Spanish with French

UCAS code: Q9X1

UCAS code: RX41

Computer Science

Mathematics

UCAS code: IX99

UCAS code: G1X1

Drama

Music

UCAS code: 2M8K

UCAS code: W3X1

Design and Technology

Physical Education

UCAS code: W9X1

UCAS code: X9C6

English

Religious Education

UCAS code: QX31

UCAS code: V6X1

French

Science: Biology

UCAS code: R1X1

UCAS code: C1X1

French with German

Science: Chemistry

UCAS code: RX11

UCAS code: F1X1

French with Italian

Science: Physics

UCAS code: RX1C

UCAS code: F3X1

French with Spanish

Science: Physics with Mathematics

UCAS code: RXD1

Geography

UCAS code: F3GX

UCAS code:

German with French UCAS code: RX21

Undergraduate Programmes BSc Hons Mathematics with Education and QTS UCAS code: Z2M1

BSc Hons Computer Science with Education and QTS UCAS code: H2RB

For more information please visit:

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I was teaching to an outstanding level almost from the outset in a school with huge amounts of scrutiny, very high standards and constant observations.

Nadim Dimechkie, Secondary History

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What we’re researching

Andrew Read, Head of Primary Initial Teacher Education, has worked in primary schools in Tower Hamlets for more than 14 years. He has published articles collaboratively on independent learning, exploring ways in which learners in schools and in higher education can take greater ownership of assessment. His chapter on Reflective Practice is included in Sage’s Professional Studies in Primary Education.

The research interests of Warren Kidd, Leader for the Humanities and Social Science Secondary Initial Teacher Education courses, include a commitment to participatory and inclusive action research as a means of developing teacher professionalism and practice.

To foster a sustainable and inclusive research culture, all TERG events are open to staff, students and other interested members of the UEL Initial Teacher Education Partnership from local schools, colleges and professional organisations.

As well as producing a bi-annual periodical, Research in Teacher Education, TERG offers support for first-time and early-career researchers as well as opportunities for networking.

For example, TERG’s ‘buddy’ scheme teams up more experienced researchers with those new to the world of academic writing and contributes to the group’s successful output of journal articles, chapters in books, books and conference paper presentations.

He is also co-leader of the Teacher Education Research Group (TERG) at the Cass School of Education and Communities. This provides a forum for informed debate and discussion on all aspects of teacher education, promoting the work of our dynamic group of teacher educators and researchers.

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Subject Knowledge Enhancement for Secondary Teacher Training Subject Knowledge Enhancement (SKE) programmes offer a boost in specific subject areas for those who wish to teach effectively in secondary schools, but whose degrees do not match the subject.

Tutors are all qualified teachers and dedicated subject specialists, with many decades of classroom experience between them.

For further information uel.ac.uk/ske

We provide: Pre-Initial Teacher Training Subject Knowledge Enhancement programmes for trainee teachers who may not have sufficient subject knowledge or a relevant degree in the areas of mathematics, physics, chemistry, modern languages, computer science and design technology. These flexible programmes can last up to 24 weeks and can be tailored to meet individual needs.

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School Direct Training Primary and Secondary Teacher Training

There are three School Direct Training programmes available through UEL:

1 School Direct Training programme 2 School Direct Salaried programme 3 School Direct Salaried programme

School Direct Training Open to all graduates and is funded by tuition fees paid by the trainee. In a model similar to the PGCE, a trainee may receive a bursary from the National College for Teaching and Leadership that will in whole or part offset the tuition fees. See page 19 for more information about bursaries.

(self-funded).

School Direct Salaried Has replaced the Graduate Teacher Programme and is intended for high-quality career changers. There is an expectation that candidates for the School Direct Salaried route will have at least a 2.1 classification for their first degree, with three years’ work experience.

Trainees on the salaried route will not be eligible for the teacher training bursary.

Applications for School Direct are now open for training starting in September 2014. You should register and apply through UCAS Teacher Training application system which has a searchable database of schools offering School Direct. A list of schools we are currently working with is available on our website: uel.ac.uk/schooldirect

Self-funded School Direct Salaried training is usually paid for by the school. Application by the school on behalf of the candidate is made directly to UEL.

Email for further information: study@uel.ac.uk

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Ofsted Report, December 2012 Inspections consistently recognise our strong links with the local community and the significant contribution that we make to the development of that community. Ofsted (2012) noted as key strengths:

• Highly reflective NQTs, who quickly become mentors themselves.

• High-quality trainees who develop excellent relationships in, and make a significant contribution to, the partnership in which they are placed.

The key strengths of the employment-based partnership are:

• An inclusive ethos, our proactive promotion and support of equality and diversity, and the resulting depth of knowledge, understanding and level of competency that equips our trainees to teach in culturally and socially diverse school contexts.

The key strengths of the secondary partnership are: • Good-quality outcomes for trainees across all secondary subjects, preparing trainees very well to deliver high-quality subject teaching both as trainees and later as NQTs. • Challenging urban school contexts that demand trainees’ perseverance and commitment; almost all trainees rise to this challenge and attain very well in schools with high student mobility, high proportions of students who speak English as an additional language, disabled students and students with special educational needs.

• High employment and the good reputation of the secondary course that successfully supports recruitment to east London schools.

• Trainees who want to listen and learn to continually improve their practice.

• The rising trend of good outcomes for trainees.

• The good understanding the trainees develop of the connection between the theory of teaching and classroom practice through their training.

• The emphasis given to ensuring individual trainees teach in diverse school settings and receive the personalised support they need to make at least good progress.

• The expertise of the university tutors in helping trainees develop their subject knowledge, and their skills in preparing trainees and NQTs for their wider professional roles.

• The quality of the mentors supporting trainees in school, who coach and guide trainees effectively in meeting the Teachers’ Standards.

• The rigorous selection arrangements through which quality entrants to the profession are identified and their initial needs established at the outset.

• Good-quality training in managing behaviour, so that trainees and NQTs are confident in setting high expectations and helping students develop positive attitudes to learning.

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Partnership Committees The Partnership Committees are a crucial part of co-development for all aspects of school and centre-based initial teacher training.

Work with schools and colleges is central to UEL’s commitment to the social and economic regeneration of east London and the Thames Gateway. Partnership work with teaching schools and other school alliances is part of a larger picture within the Thames Gateway.

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The PGCE Year Primary & Secondary Teacher Training

As a trainee teacher you will spend two-thirds of the PGCE programme in schools and onethird of your time in university-based study.

The close working relationship between UEL and our partnership schools ensures that we maintain a high quality of training.

The PGCE programme starts in September and ends in late June. The year is divided into three terms. School half-term holidays are set as directed study time: you are not required to attend sessions at UEL or school during these weeks unless you are participating in a Subject Knowledge Enhancement course. Breaks at Christmas and Easter are in line with school holidays.

Your school-based training becomes gradually more challenging as you develop confidence and competence in the classroom. You will work initially with a mentor to develop an understanding of how to intervene effectively to support pupil progress.

As you gain confidence you will take on the full role of the teacher, planning, teaching and resourcing lessons, and assessing the progress of all pupils in the class. You will be supported while on school-based training by a schoolbased mentor and a university-based tutor.

During your UEL-based study, you will work mainly in subject specific groups. These groups are led by specialist tutors who have substantial relevant teaching experience and a commitment to your professional development.

Tutors often contribute to research, policy and curriculum developments in your subject and are very much in touch with current educational practice.

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Your Career

As a Primary and Secondary trainee you will benefit from a bespoke careers support programme during your studies and beyond.

You will work closely with your personal tutor to identify your unique personal strengths, as well as areas you can improve during your time with us. We will support you all the way to get your career in Primary and Secondary teaching off to an excellent start and give you the confidence to take those all important first steps in your teaching career.

Our excellent graduate destinations statistics (see page 4) speak for themselves, and our strong reputation in the sector, both within east London and further afield, is testament of our trainees’ and NQTs’ consistent success.

From day one you can tap into support from Cass Careers, our School’s in-house employability service. This includes two

careers fairs dedicated exclusively to our Primary and Secondarytrainees, as well as a wealth of cross-programme recruitment exhibitions that provide invaluable networking opportunities. We support you in polishing your job applications and interview skills through workshops and one-to-one sessions and can even refer you on to get additional training from specialist trainers like voice coaches.

Our graduates are represented in virtually every Primary and Secondary school in east London and these strong ties and longstanding relationships mean that you will be best-placed for securing your first post. Both local authorities and individual schools visit our campus regularly to meet our trainees and advertise available vacancies, making Cass a premier choice for Primary and Secondary ITT.

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My tutors were all very supportive and knowledgeable. They were able to provide me with an enriching experience to share my knowledge and further develop my thinking around education.

Jasmine McClelland, MA Special Education Needs, currently teaching in east London

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Resources and facilities

Teacher training programmes are taught at the University of East London’s Stratford campus, close to the town centre of Stratford and the 2012 Olympic Park.

The Cass School of Education and Communities has a purpose-built building that provides a unique hub for teacher training, as well as a community resource for children and schools around London.

Students also have access to a brand-new, fully networked media library open 24/7 during semesters. It hosts an advanced digital library with over 130,000 printed books and journals, and 120 ‘open access’ computers for student and staff to use, as well as study spaces, breakout rooms and free wifi for all students.

The Stratford campus is easy to get to with key transport links via overground trains, Tube, DLR and buses.

The Cass School of Education and Communities building, opened in 2009, is a £10 million facility that accommodates almost 2,500 students. The School’s range of impressive facilities includes dedicated research space and specially equipped teaching areas, including a professional kitchen, a music, dance and drama studio, an ICT laboratory, an art, design and textiles studio, and science labs.

The building provides four levels of teaching rooms and office space for staff. Rooms are situated around an open atrium space that serves as both circulation and foyer space but also to bring natural light and ventilation into the building.

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Scholarships for Secondary Teacher Training

Fees & Funding for Primary & Secondary Teacher Training

Tax free scholarships of up to £30,000 for physics and £25,000 for maths, chemistry and computing trainees, are available, delivered in partnership with professional bodies such as the Institute of Physics (IOP) and Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). These prestigious awards are aimed at high-quality graduates with a 2:1 or first-class degree, who are passionate about their subject and have the potential to be inspirational teachers.

There is lots of support available to fund your teacher training. What you’re eligible for will depend on your degree class, course and subject. If you do not have a degree in the subject you wish to teach, free courses are available to increase your subject knowledge prior to teacher training.

Scholarships are awarded by professional bodies for these subjects, and scholars will be selected through an additional application and assessment process. Each scholarship also comes with a package of non-financial benefits, such as early career support and membership of the appropriate professional body.

To encourage the best graduates to enter the profession, financial incentives are offered to trainees intending to train to teach the subjects in the table below. You do not need to apply for a bursary – if you are enrolled on a non-salaried postgraduate course and meet the eligibility criteria, you will begin receiving payments at the beginning of your course.

To apply for a scholarship and for further information, you should visit the appropriate Professional Body website: • Physics – delivered by the Institute of Physics (IOP) • Mathematics – delivered by the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), in collaboration with the London Mathematical Society (LMS), the Mathematical Association (MA), Maths in Education and Industry (MEI) and the Royal Statistical Society (RSS)

Training bursaries

School Direct Salaried The amount you earn will be dependent on the school you train in and the key stage/subject you’re teaching. This year, a number of schools are offering an enhanced salary of up to £25,000 to trainees in maths and physics – you should check with the school before you apply to see if they are offering this higher rate.

• Chemistry – delivered by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) • Computing – delivered by the BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT The scholarship will be instead of the standard bursary, but trainees who are not awarded the scholarship will still be eligible for the standard bursaries.

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Financial incentives for postgraduate non-salaried teacher training courses in 2016/17 by subject: Eligibility 2016/17 1

Programme

Scholarships2

Trainee with 1st / PhD

2:1 / Master’s

2:2

Other

Physics

£30,000

£30,000

£25,000

£25,000

£9,0003

Mathematics

£25,000

£25,000

£25,000

£25,000

£9,0003

Chemistry, Computing

£25,000

£25,000

£20,000

£20,000

£0

Languages 4

–

£25,000

£25,000

£20,000

£0

Biology

–

£20,000

£15,000

£15,000

£0

Primary Mathematics 5

–

£6,000

£6,000

£6,000

£3,000

Geography,

–

£15,000

£15,000

£15,000

£0

D&T

–

£12,000

£9,000

£0

£0

Primary

–

£3,000

£3,000

£0

£0

English, History, RE, Music

–

£9,000

£4,000

£0

£0

The financial information on this page applies to 2016/17.

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About the University of East London The University of East London is a unique and exciting place. You’ll meet people from all over the world and make lifelong friendships.

We have campuses in three locations in East London. The Cass School of Education and Communities is at our historic Stratford campus close to the 2012 Olympic Park with easy transport links in and out of London.

Our Stratford campus provides impressive facilities that include a new Library and Learning Centre (open 24 hours a day during term time), laboratories and computing facilities, and new buildings housing the Cass School of Education and Communities.

Our Student Support hubs in Docklands and Stratford, built at a cost of £3.1 million, feature centralised helpdesks to cater for your every need.

We’re one of the very few universities in London to offer on-campus accommodation.

Our stunning waterfront Student Village is convenient, secure and comfortable - and living on campus is a great way to make friends.

At our Docklands campus you’ll find our SportsDock which has a futuristic fitness centre, two top-spec outdoor 3G five-a-side football pitches, two amazing indoor arenas and a dance and aerobics studio to cater for everything from Archery to Zumba.

Come and visit us You can find out a lot about a university by reading about it, but there’s no substitute for experiencing it for yourself. To get a feel for what it’s really like at the University of East London, we strongly recommend you to pay us a visit.

We run a series of open events at our Stratford and Docklands campuses, where you’ll have the chance to talk to staff and students about the hundreds of degree courses we offer and about life in general at the University. And you’ll be able to take a tour of impressive facilities.

Find out more: uel.ac.uk/opendays

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Applying to UEL

UK/EU students You can find out how to apply for our courses by visiting our website at uel.ac.uk/ postgraduate and searching for a course. Each course page provides detailed instructions about how and when to apply.

International students International students should apply directly to UEL online. Please visit our country pages for specific advice uel.ac.uk/international Advice and guidance We have an Applicant Enquiries team available Monday to Friday (9am–5pm) for any questions.

Tel: +44 (0)20 8223 3333 Email: study@uel.ac.uk You can also contact our Information Advice and Guidance (IAG) team for advice about starting university and choosing the right course. The IAG team can also offer guidance on finance and funding. They’re based at our University Square Stratford building and run drop-in sessions in the daytime and some evenings. For details visit uel.ac.uk/iag

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Applicants with a degree from outside the UK should contact their preferred provider to discuss equivalencies in detail as early as possible. You can refer to the equivalency table (PDF, 1MB) to see if your degree is likely to attract a bursary, but please note that this information was collated in 2011 and is currently being updated. Please contact your provider to check if your degree is more recent than 2011, as the information may not match your qualification.

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2 Trainees in maths, physics, chemistry and computing with a 2:1 or above are able to apply for a teacher training scholarship with the appropriate professional body.

3 Trainee teachers in maths and physics, and on primary maths courses, with a relevant degree and at least a B at A level in maths or physics (or equivalent) will be eligible for a bursary of £9,000. Trainees will not be entitled to this bursary if they are also entitled to a higher bursary based on degree class.

Bursaries are available to train to teach modern foreign languages, community languages and ancient languages including Latin and Ancient Greek.

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Bursaries are available to trainees with a B or better at maths A level or equivalent on either primary maths specialist courses or primary general (with mathematics) courses. Trainees without a B or higher at maths A level, or on other primary courses will be eligible for the standard primary bursary.

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This publication has been prepared some months before the academic year to which it relates, and whilst every care has been taken to ensure accuracy at the time of going to press, its ongoing accuracy cannot be guaranteed. In particular, we are constantly developing and improving the programmes, modules and options described in the publication, and we reserve the right to modify or discontinue them.

Throughout this publication you will find degrees marked subject to validation. While expected to be running in 2015/16, these programmes were still in the approval stage at the time of publication.

No part of this publication is to be construed as an offer or the basis of any agreement between UEL and an individual.

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