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Going into teaching after University, what route do i take?

I'm hopefully going to be starting university next year on a politics related courses along with other topics with like (economics, politics and public policy or politics and international relations) (i havent made my firm and insurance choices yet but their all like the two examples above.

Anyway, i was thinking about becoming a teacher and im really confused as to what routes i have to become one.

Any advice, should i be looking into Teach First or PGCE in History or can i go straight into teaching after i graduate from university.
This is a very good link I found regarding teaching

http://university.which.co.uk/subjects/teacher-training
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In order to work in a state school, you will need Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). If you take a politics-related degree rather than a degree that leads to QTS then you will need to do a postgraduate course, like a PGCE or the Teach First programme, to gain QTS.
Original post by asamedkaradal
I'm hopefully going to be starting university next year on a politics related courses along with other topics with like (economics, politics and public policy or politics and international relations) (i havent made my firm and insurance choices yet but their all like the two examples above.

Anyway, i was thinking about becoming a teacher and im really confused as to what routes i have to become one.

Any advice, should i be looking into Teach First or PGCE in History or can i go straight into teaching after i graduate from university.


If you want to teach History you need at least 50% of your undergraduate degree to be in History
Original post by Pierson
In order to work in a state school, you will need Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). If you take a politics-related degree rather than a degree that leads to QTS then you will need to do a postgraduate course, like a PGCE or the Teach First programme, to gain QTS.


Thanks for the help!
I thought some of the information on the above website was too general to be very useful. However, the following information sheet was informative and covered all areas of the UK.

https://www.abdn.ac.uk/careers/resources/documents/4456.pdf
Original post by samanthani
I thought some of the information on the above website was too general to be very useful. However, the following information sheet was informative and covered all areas of the UK.

https://www.abdn.ac.uk/careers/resources/documents/4456.pdf


Yeah i had a look as well and it was too general and it kind of confused me more

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