Funding Given To The School

The West London Teaching School Alliance (WLTSA) gives money to every school that successfully recruits a trainee with us. You would be referred to as 'the host school' and this money is given to you during the training year.

There is no financial cost to you for requesting a place and no cost throughout the recruitment year, despite the work that we will be doing on your behalf at that time.  There is no financial pressure on you to recruit for the sake of it.  We want you to recruit quality trainees and if you fail to find a candidate of suitable quality you will have lost nothing. You could ask us to close your programme and you would have incurred no financial cost.

WLTSA levies a fee for every trainee that is successfully recruited because we do have to remain financially sustainable (our costs relate mostly to staff salaries but we also have separate auditing fees, some limited marketing costs promoting your programmes, etc). This WLTSA fee however never comes from your school budget. It comes from money that we receive from the university for unsalaried trainees and from the funding we receive from the EFA for salaried trainees. We pass the remainder of any monies received to you.

The amount of money that we pass to you varies depending on the type of place that you choose (salaried or unsalaried) , the university that you wish to partner with, and (for salaried programmes) the subject that you request. 

UNSALARIED SECONDARY PGCE(M)+QTS PROGRAMMES (2018-19 cohort)

For unsalaried programmes, the candidate pays a tuition fees to the university (usually £9,250) and for many subjects, candidates can receive a tax free DfE bursary. Bursaries for the government’s priority subjects can be substantial – in many cases higher than an unqualified teacher’s salary.

A proportion of the tuition fee money received by the university is passed to WLTSA in the training year, but the amounts vary considerably by university.  We recommend specific universities for specific subjects, see subjects list in separate tab

WLTSA retains its £850 fee and a £27 UCAS capitation fee but the remainder of the money is passed on to the host school. For programmes partnered with:                                                                                                                       

• St Mary's University, Twickenham or Roehampton University, the host school receives £2,123                                                                                                                    
• UCL (IOE), the school receives £1,123

SALARIED SECONDARY PROGRAMMES

On the salaried programme, schools employ the candidate in the training year but the salary is subsidised from the Teaching School. The Teaching School receives funding from the Educational Funding Agency (EFA) and retains the WLTSA fee from this and also uses it to pay the university tuition fees and the UCAS fee.  The remainder of the money is passed to the host school to help subsidise the salary.

This all varies significantly by subject but we can sent you a break down for each subject if you request it.