Guidance

Recruiting postgraduate trainee teachers: recruitment cycle dates

Dates and deadlines for organisations providing postgraduate teacher training.

Applies to England

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PostgraduateTeacher teacher training follows a ‘recruitment cycle’ from October to September. All training providers must follow the dates of the recruitment cycle.

These lists of dates cover the 2023 to 2024, 2024 to 2025 and 20242025 to 20252026 recruitment cycles.

Updates to this page

Published 29 September 2022
Last updated 1123 SeptemberAugust 20232024 + show all updates
  1. Added '2025 to 2026 recruitment cycle' to 'Recruiting trainee teachers: recruitment cycle dates'. Removed 'postgraduate' from title.

  2. Candidates in the 2023 to 2024 cycle can apply for another course if they do not receive a decision on an application in 30 working days. Updated the page to clarify this point.

  3. Updated details on the 2023 to 2024 recruitment cycle, and added dates for the 2024 to 2025 recruitment cycle.

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