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Leeds Trinity is a well-established and widely respected University, with an excellent reputation for training teachers.
We hope to welcome you to our PGCE programme in September 2026.
Your offer conditions
Your offer is subject to the following conditions:
- proof of qualifications that meet our minimum entry requirements
- a suitable medical report
- a satisfactory DBS Enhanced Disclosure Certificate
- two satisfactory references before you begin the programme.
If you accept your offer to train at Leeds Trinity, you will need to complete the below steps in order to satisfy the conditions of your offer by 31 July 2026.
Select the age range you'll be studying below:
PGCE Primary
- Apply for a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced check. We use an external company called First Advantage online disclosures to provide this service. If you make Leeds Trinity your firm choice, you will receive an email inviting you to register with First Advantage - Know Your People, and complete your online DBS application.
- If you have lived outside the United Kingdom for a period of more than six months within the last five years, you will be required to provide a police check from that country to cover that time. Further information regarding obtaining a police check from other countries is available via the gov.uk website.
- If you make Leeds Trinity your firm choice, our occupational health provider Heales will be in touch to go through the health check process.
- Provide an image or scan of your degree (if awarded), any additional higher qualifications, and your GCSE Maths, Science and English certificates to ITTadmissions@leedstrinity.ac.uk
Pre-course audits
You will need to complete your pre-course audits before you begin your PGCE in September. These tasks are designed to allow you to self-evaluate your subject knowledge and identify where further study may be required to ensure you’re prepared for the start of the course.
Download your pre-course audits
PGCE Secondary
- Apply for a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Enhanced check. We use an external company called First Advantage to provide this service. If you make Leeds Trinity your firm choice, you will receive an email inviting you to register with First Advantage - Know Your People, and complete your online DBS application.
- If you have lived outside the United Kingdom for a period of more than six months within the last five years, you will be required to provide a police check from that country to cover that time. Further information regarding obtaining a police check from other countries is available via the gov.uk website.
- If you make Leeds Trinity your firm choice, our occupational health provider Heales will be in touch to go through the health check process.
- Provide an image or scan of your degree (if awarded), any additional higher qualifications, and your GCSE Maths and English certificates to ITTadmissions@leedstrinity.ac.uk.
- Register for your Subject Knowledge Enhancement (SKE) course (only if specified in your offer) and ensure you have completed it before 31 July 2026.
There is funding available for chemistry, computing, languages, mathematics and physics. To ensure you receive this financial support, we highly recommend you apply before February 2026.
Please note that Leeds Trinity University is not an SKE provider and we suggest using the below partners to complete your SKE course. The provision of any SKE course will be under contract with the SKE provider:
Health declaration
We use an external company called Heales Medical to provide this service, so you will receive information directly from Heales Medical to go through the health check process. They will fully explain everything that you need to do in order for them to declare you Fit to Train to Teach.
GCSE equivalency
If required, GCSE equivalency tests are available through our listed providers:
Please note, we only accept equivalency tests from the three providers listed.
A Star Equivalency offer a £26 discount for Leeds Trinity applicants if booked using 26offleedstrinity discount promo code.
You will need to have taken and passed your GCSE equivalency test(s) and provided the results to Admissions as detailed in your offer conditions by the end of July 2026 to begin your studies.
Placements
Our programmes are taught face to face at our Main Campus in Horsforth, with our School Partnerships largely based within the Leeds Metro region.
School Experience placements are based on your term-time address, including Halls of Residence. If you live within the Leeds Metro area, your travel time to School Experience will be calculated from there.
If you live outside the Leeds Metro area, we will use the Main Campus as the point from which we base your travel time.
The University aims to minimise travelling, by either car or public transport, to attend School Experience but sometimes it may be necessary for trainees to travel further due to the location of their term-time address from an appropriate School Experience setting. Trainees may need to travel up to 90 minutes each way. In exceptional cases, travel beyond this 90 minutes may be required, with some reimbursement may be available for the additional journey.
The School Partnerships Office will be available to discuss any School Experience location queries you might have.
Funding your teacher training
Most UK students can apply for a tuition fee loan to cover the cost of their tuition fees from Student Finance England or their relevant funding body.
UK students can also apply for a package of loans and grants to help with living costs while studying – you may also be eligible for a Training Bursary from the Department of Education.
We recommend sending a copy of your offer email to your respective funding body so they can add it to your application for student finance.
There are many eligibility requirements for statutory student finance, one being 'residency'.
If you have any reason to think that you may not be entitled to statutory student finance, it is your responsibility to contact the relevant funding body and inform us if you are not eligible.
Replying to your offer
When you’ve received decisions on all your choices, Leeds Trinity will wait eight weeks for you to decide which offer you want to accept.
You won’t be able to accept an offer while you have applications without a final decision – this is so you can make your final choice having all of your options open to you.
To reply to your offers, visit the gov.uk website.
Get in touch
If you have any questions regarding the conditions of your offer or the information on this webpage, please contact our Admissions team at ITTadmissions@leedstrinity.ac.uk or 0113 283 7123.