Career change SOS

Why not give the Get Into Teaching hotline? I don't think PGCE counts as standard student finance. You may be a bit to late to apply for history this year but certainly, you could be ready for next.

Good luck!

Thanks for your reply! It’s quite a new thing where you can get £10,000 student finance for postgrad courses, which is what I did.
i think I will call them, thanks

Don't know about that one, but history can give you up to £12,000 bursary tax free if you meet the grade

https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/funding-my-teacher-training/bursaries-and-scholarships-for-teacher-training

The PGCE isn't treated as a post-grad course in terms of funding. For reasons mainly to do with fees etc, it's treated like an undergrad course BUT the amount of funding you've had prior doesn't affect getting the fees/maintenance loans. For a further education course such as law, you would be entitled to a fees loan and a maintenance loan. If you were able to do history, there's also the tax free bursary.

Before applying to teach law, it would be a good idea to investigate the working conditions in the further education sector fully and the availability of full time law teaching jobs.

Ah okay, so I’d still be able to get funding for a PGCE course then?

I don’t want to teach law at all unfortunately, just history!