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You can apply directly to the Secondary Postgraduate Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programme through one of the University’s Lead Partner (ITE) Hubs.

These ITE Hubs are formed of local alliances of schools. Our programme is fully integrated, so students recruited by the University and those recruited by Lead Partners learn together.

This route might benefit you if you need to be placed in a particular location or wish to build a relationship with your placement schools before the programme begins.

Our secondary lead partners

Initial Teacher Education (ITE) hubs that recruit in partnership with the University of Reading to deliver secondary postgraduate teacher training:

Burnham Teaching Partnership (University of Reading ITE Hub): Lead school Burnham Grammar School

Court Moor Partnership (University of Reading ITE Hub): Lead school Court Moor School

Newbury ITE Partnership (University of Reading ITE Hub): The Trinity School

North East Hants and Surrey Borders Consortium (University of Reading ITE Hub): Lead school Calthorpe Park School

Maiden Erlegh Institute (University of Reading ITE Hub): Lead School Maiden Erlegh

Swindon Teacher Training Partnership (University of Reading ITE Hub): Lead school Lydiard Park Academy

Teach Maidenhead (University of Reading ITE Hub): Lead school Furze Platt Senior School

Slough ITE Partnership (University of Reading ITE Hub): Lead partner TSH Berkshire

The Bracknell Forest Partnership (University of Reading ITE Hub): Lead school Ranelagh School

The Wokingham Federation (University of Reading ITE Hub): Lead school The Piggott School

Two Counties Teacher Training Partnership (University of Reading ITE Hub): Lead school The Willink School

Apply now

Apply for teacher training is the Gov.uk service where you can apply for postgraduate teacher training.

You can apply for up to four teaching programmes in your application.  

Apply now for postgraduate teacher training

Visit the Department for Education (DfE) Get into Teaching website for more information on ways to train.

Read before applying

If you are considering applying to become a teacher, please read our Have you considered training to teach? leaflet.

Look at this leaflet for advice on planning your application and preparing for an interview on one of our primary or secondary postgraduate teaching programmes.

Application support

For support with your application to our postgraduate teaching programmes, contact the University of Reading Admissions Team at teachertraining@reading.ac.uk.

Teacher training events

Come to a Postgraduate Initial Teacher Education event. These events cover all routes into teaching for Early Years, Primary and Secondary Postgraduate programmes.

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