Tda training bursary funding manual

You must make sure that those responsible for making decisions on bursary eligibility are familiar with, or have access to, advice on the range of qualifications generally regarded as equivalent to a first degree in the UK.

This may include:. You should be aware of the range of degrees awarded by UK institutions. This includes determining whether a particular qualification demonstrates the breadth and type of academic engagement that would be expected from a bachelor, masters or doctoral degree.

Where ITT providers lack the institutional experience to assess the validity of academic qualifications they should refer to the Framework for Higher Education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Further guidance about how to assess the equivalency of UK qualifications is provided in Annex B: assessing UK academic qualifications.

ITT providers should seek assurances from trainees in receipt of a bursary that they understand they will be expected to seek a teaching post in England upon successful completion of their course.

We reserve the right to request further information from ITT providers with high levels of trainees who are domiciled outside of England. Further information about assessing the equivalency of overseas qualifications is provided in Annex C: accessing overseas qualifications. More information about these scholarships is available on the Get into Teaching website.

Trainees who apply for but do not gain a scholarship may be eligible for a training bursary. Trainees cannot receive both the scholarship and training bursary. These payments will be made via the standard training bursary funding process. They should use their discretion when considering degree classification and subject knowledge. Further details can be found on the websites of the relevant organisations.

The applicant must secure an eligible physics, secondary mathematics, chemistry, computing, geography or languages ITT tuition fee based provider-led or School Direct tuition fee programme place by 1 September for the scholarship award to be valid.

An applicant will lose their scholarship entitlement if they are unable to secure a place on an eligible course by this date. Courses that enable a trainee to be recommended for the award of QTLS , or a solely academic award such as PGCE without QTS , upon successful completion are not eligible for training bursary or scholarship funding.

They may apply for the scholarship at any time before applying for or starting an ITT place. Trainees are responsible for informing their ITT provider and providing evidence that they have been recommended for a scholarship. You must make sure that each trainee in receipt of a scholarship is identified appropriately within the Database of Trainee Teachers and Providers DTTP.

You remain responsible for selecting trainees for courses regardless of their recommendation for a scholarship.

Recommendation for a scholarship does not override or take priority over the eligibility criteria as set out in eligibility for training bursaries. Trainees must meet all the eligibility criteria to receive the scholarship funding. Trainees are advised to visit the Get into Teaching website for more information about scholarship awards. You must make all reasonable efforts to recover bursary payments from your trainee. If you pay the Student Loans Company SLC to administer the bursary you remain responsible and accountable for the management of this funding.

You should make bursary and scholarship payments to trainees throughout the academic year as detailed in Annex D: value and timing for training bursary payments.

These payments are not taxable. However, as with student maintenance loans, they may be treated as capital income for the purposes of assessing income for trainees in receipt of state benefits. We advise you to refer trainees to their local benefits office to determine their eligibility for state benefits. Trainees will be entitled to receive the first bursary payment if they are actively engaged on the ITT programme on the first day of the month following their start date.

Example A trainee commencing their course in September will be entitled to their first payment if they are actively completing the programme on 1 October. If a trainee completes their course before the end of the academic year they may receive the full balance of the bursary in the month that they complete the course. In the event that a trainee is absent through sickness you may only make one further payment following the first day of absence.

After this, the absence should be treated as a period of deferral and payments must stop with immediate effect. These principles also apply for trainees who start their postgraduate or undergraduate courses later in the academic year.

For example, if a trainee commences their course in January , they will be entitled to their first payment if they are actively completing the programme on 1 February. You must maintain an audit trail of all payments made to trainees and any decisions around payment structures. Eligible trainees who withdraw or defer from a course will be entitled to payment for each month up to, and including, the month in which they formally withdraw.

Withdrawal or deferral information should reflect the dates given to Student Finance England for student support purposes. Returning trainees who defer and then re-join their original course, or take any advanced standing or credit to a new ITT course, will only be eligible to receive the remaining bursary award up to the value which was available in the year that they started their original course.

A bespoke payment schedule may be agreed for the remaining amount between you and the trainee. Where the length of the course is increased the bursary instalments can be amended to reflect the longer timeframe. The total bursary amount, however, is fixed and cannot be increased. If a trainee leaves one ITT course and joins a new one with no transfer of standing or credit from their previous course, and they are being charged a new tuition fee, this is viewed as a separate route to QTS.

If the trainee has received their full bursary entitlement during a previous ITT programme this may impact their eligibility to receive bursary funding while completing a new programme in academic year to Funding education.

We have a responsibility to make sure that public funds and assets generated from applicable ITT places are properly managed in line with the grant funding agreements held by ITT providers.

Trainees must hold the highest eligible qualification on which their assessment was based, prior to starting the course. We reserve the right to request this evidence at any point during the academic year from you, for the purpose of quality monitoring and funding assurance. This may include copies of original documentation provided by trainees, including qualification certificates. Your accounting officer will be required to verify these data sets. Funding will be adjusted at these points to meet the actual amount required.

Where funding that you have received is more than the amount that you were entitled to we will recover the excess by invoicing you or offsetting this amount against any future payments. Remember to make sure that all trainee records on the DTTP are complete. This includes amending the records of trainees who:. In the event of any variances, particularly with regard to unclassified degrees, we reserve the right to ask you for explanations of the variances and to seek further information.

We will not reimburse you for any bursaries paid to ineligible trainees. This has to be independently audited and countersigned by the accounting officer Annex F: assurance and audit process. Failure to fully comply with the monitoring and assurance requirements in ITT allocations and funding may result in non-compliance, which could lead to the withdrawal of your accreditation.

Failure to comply with requests for data may result in non-compliance, which could lead to the withdrawal of your accreditation. Lead schools are required to give accurate data to their partner ITT provider about the schools in which each trainee is undertaking training. This must include the dates of the training periods so that this can be uploaded onto the DTTP. Trainees will have teacher training course codes which will be confirmed in due course.

Providers with School Direct trainees are required to identify the lead school and up to five placement schools for each trainee. Details of the process are available in the DTTP guidance document.

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Comparing unmet transit needs with the needs for streets and roads is not allowable in determining transit needs that are reasonable to meet. A bespoke payment schedule may be agreed for the remaining amount between you and the trainee. Where the length of the course is increased the bursary instalments can be amended to reflect the longer timeframe. The total bursary amount, however, is fixed and cannot be increased. If you require bursary funding to be added to their payment profile to accommodate trainees who re-commence in to academic year, you must contact the ITT Funding team with the relevant trainee and funding details upon their return.

If a trainee leaves one ITT course and joins a new one with no transfer of standing or credit from their previous course, and they are being charged a new tuition fee, this is viewed as a separate route to QTS. If the trainee has received their full bursary entitlement during a previous ITT programme this may impact their eligibility to receive bursary funding while completing a new programme in academic year to Funding education.

We have a responsibility to make sure that public funds and assets generated from applicable ITT places are properly managed in line with the grant funding agreements held by ITT providers. Trainees must hold the highest eligible qualification on which their assessment was based prior to starting the course.

We reserve the right to request this evidence at any point during the academic year from you, for the purpose of quality monitoring and funding assurance. This may include copies of original documentation provided by trainees, including qualification certificates. Your accounting officer will be required to verify these data sets.

Funding will be adjusted at these points to meet the actual amount required. Where funding that you have received is more than the amount that you were entitled to, we will recover the excess by invoicing you or offsetting this amount against any future payments. Remember to make sure that all trainee records on the DTTP are complete. This includes amending the records of trainees who:. In the event of any variances, particularly with regard to unclassified degrees, we reserve the right to ask you for explanations of the variances and to seek further information.

We will not reimburse you for any bursaries paid to ineligible trainees. This has to be independently audited and countersigned by the accounting officer Annex F: assurance and audit process. Failure to fully comply with the monitoring and assurance requirements in ITT allocations and funding may result in non-compliance, which could lead to the withdrawal of your accreditation.

Failure to comply with requests for data may result in non-compliance, which could lead to the withdrawal of your accreditation. Lead schools are required to give accurate data to their partner ITT provider about the schools in which each trainee is undertaking training. This must include the dates of the training periods so that this can be uploaded onto the DTTP. Trainees will have teacher training course codes which will be confirmed in due course. Providers with School Direct trainees are required to identify the lead school and up to five placement schools for each trainee.

Details of the process are available in the DTTP guidance document. Further information on this is sent out before the start of each new academic year. Provider-led or School Direct trainees can be identified by selecting the appropriate route options on the trainee form. For School Direct trainees, ITT providers will be required to identify the lead school and up to five schools where the trainee will be undertaking their training during their ITT course.

Full details of the process are available in the DTTP guidance document. Any queries regarding the submission of trainee-level data should be directed to the Data Team at becomingateacher digital. In addition, holders of this award will be able to evaluate evidence, arguments and assumptions to reach sound judgements and communicate them effectively.

Honours degree holders will usually have completed an independent dissertation or thesis relating to the subject in which they are specialising in and will have undertaken considerably fewer contact hours than an ordinary degree. Honours degrees require credits for completion. The outcome can sometimes be a license to train in a particular subject, such as accounting.

Open degrees from the Open University awarded without honours would fall into this category and would not be eligible for bursaries in their own right.

Trainees in this position are advised to contact the Open University for advice. You can determine what bursary award trainees will get, based on their highest academic qualification.

Trainees with an ordinary degree, aegrotat ordinary degree, postgraduate certificate PGCert or diploma PGDip only are not eligible for a bursary. The Master of Arts status conferred on application by the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford does not result in its holders being eligible for a bursary.

If a trainee is ineligible for a bursary award but feels that there are extenuating circumstances which impacted their final result, this must be raised with the awarding body of the qualification. ITT providers must not apply any discretion in these cases. If the outcome of a qualification, e. If the trainee is subsequently awarded a higher qualification, their bursary eligibility may be reassessed provided the award of this qualification was made on or before the date the course started.

Please contact ITT. First degrees in medicine, which are qualifying awards in professional terms, are not classified. However, this only applies to degrees that are 5 years in length.

A number of award titles may be used in both categories of award. We advise you to check individual cases with the relevant awarding bodies before making a decision about awarding bursaries. Partnerships that do not include degree-awarding bodies may wish to seek advice from those that are. We have introduced an overseas qualification service, available through Get into Teaching , which includes:. Final decisions on candidate eligibility still lie with you before the start of ITT.

When selecting trainees with overseas degrees you should make sure that they comply with the ITT criteria. You must hold full records of all trainees in receipt of bursaries, including any qualifications or training they referenced in their application which was achieved before starting their ITT.

Decisions on eligibility must be based solely on the content of the qualification itself and must not include any unrelated additional qualifications or experience.

We reserve the right to request these details from you at any point during the academic year for the purpose of monitoring the robustness of your processes. Many overseas qualifications sit either above or below British bachelor honours and British bachelor degree standard.

If an overseas qualification is not equivalent to at least a second-class honours degree it will be considered equivalent to an ordinary or third class degree. Unless you consider, in your own assessment, that the degree should be equivalent to at least a second class honours degree and you are able to provide evidence which supports your assessment. Bursary awards should be paid in a minimum of 10 equal monthly instalments over the duration of the course.

Trainees on part-time or modular courses may agree a flexible monthly payment plan which covers the duration of the part-time programme. You must, however, make sure that the bursary payments reflect the proportion of the course that the trainee has completed at any point. As part-time courses will span more than one academic year, you may award the bursary beyond the academic year to