The RSA Academies’ Teaching School Alliance and BCU will check all applications. Those applicants meeting the entry criteria will be shortlisted and invited for interview which will involve:
Once all applicants have been interviewed, the Director of Initial Teacher Training and representatives from the alliance will meet to discuss the outcome of the interviews, and begin to match up potentially successful applicants with the allocations available.
Once a list of selected applicants has been finalised, a provisional offer will be made in writing. This offer is provisional until several checks and agreements have been made.
These include:
As part of the selection procedure, candidates will be requested to take part in a rigorous selection process designed to assess suitability to teach. All applicants applying to start a teacher training course are required to undertake some experience in a school.