PGCE Teacher Training

A career in teaching offers great benefits, opportunities to use a wide range of skills and the chance to inspire students in a subject you love.

Teaching is a rewarding profession. You get to work with amazing children, young people and colleagues, doing work that makes you feel proud and valued, earning a salary that is higher than many people expect.

Leeds Trinity University is a well-established and widely respected higher education institution with an excellent reputation for training teachers to work in primary and secondary education settings.

As the premier provider of teacher training in Yorkshire and the Humber region, we offer outstanding courses with strong school partnerships for aspiring teachers.

Whether you want to teach primary or secondary education, we offer a variety of routes into the teaching profession, as well as a wide variety of subjects. So you can select the route best suited for you and your future teaching career.

Choose your preferred age phase:

Routes into teaching

Do you want your training to be led by a university or a school? There are different advantages to each option, so it all comes down to how you want to learn.

We offer three routes into teaching: a University-led route (the Leeds Trinity University PGCE) and two school-led routes (School Direct and SCITT) for Primary and Secondary PGCEs. All three routes lead to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE).