Teacher Training in Jersey

Change your future

What is your next career? Inspire the future and become a teacher. We can help you achieve your teacher qualification in Jersey.

Their future, our future, enable your future

Jersey is committed to ensuring the long-term provision of education for our young people that makes us proud as an Island. To achieve this we recognise that the commitment needs to be for the long term which is why we are making significant investment to train more teachers.

Islanders that wish to be our future teachers have three different ways to make this happen. Each route is designed to suit different life points, circumstances and learning styles. If you have a degree and a desire to teach, we have a route to make your desire a reality.

From September 2025 all of the routes available are taken in conjunction with a Post Graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) awarded by the University of Sussex. This will enable all successful graduate teachers who completed the programme in July 2026 and beyond to apply for QTS in England as well as JQTS in Jersey.

We recruit for the Jersey Graduate Teacher Training Programme (including the PGCE) each January, to enable locally qualified students to start their training in September.

Applicants for the JGTTP course MUST be eligible to receive funding from the Government of Jersey for the cost of the course. Please see the specific requirements below.

Who can receive student finance

To receive student finance you must:

be a Jersey resident, see the residency requirements
be aged 16 or over on 31 August of the year you start your degree
have been offered a place on your chosen course

Students usually receive student finance once for a maximum of 3 years.

Applications Open: Monday 27 January 2025
Applications Close: Monday 17 February 2025

To find out more information please email us.

Student Bursary - Shortage Subjects - Route 1

Duration: September to July
Student tuition fees: Paid by the Government of Jersey
Finance: Bursary grant of £25,000 non taxable
Level: Secondary and Further Education Only

Our students studying with a bursary for shortage subjects have the opportunity to combine study and practical learning. You will start gradually with a few hours a week supervised teaching, slowly building to 50% during the Spring term split between two placements. Trainees will be working towards a PGCE in Pedagogy and practice awarded by The University of Sussex and Jersey Qualified Teacher Status.

Professional Studies takes place one morning per week during term time and is adjusted for those on a part-time route.

As a trainee teacher, you will be allocated to a department in two contrasting schools for a major and minor placement. You will train alongside an experienced teacher (your subject Mentor) in each school. You will shadow them and gradually learn to teach their classes.

Your shortage subject does not necessarily have to be your degree subject. There is opportunity for a subject knowledge enhancement course for those with A Levels of shortage subjects, which still gives the opportunity to teach your subject of passion. Our shortage subjects between 2024 and 2026 are mathematics, science and english. A number of other subjects will be published each January, confirming the subjects that are open for applications that year.

Please contact us to apply or find out more information.

Employed by a school - Route 2

Duration: July to July or July to September
Student Tuition Fees: Paid by the Government of Jersey
Finance: Salary of £40,920 (taxable for a full time role and adjusted accordingly for a part time contract) you may be eligible for student finance depending on household income.
Level: Primary, Secondary and Further Education

A popular route for those used to receiving an income, you will be employed as an unqualified teacher and train while you work, this may be full time or a part time contract. This training option will involve teaching up to 14 hours per week and include responsibility for the planning, teaching and wellbeing of those classes. There will also be a placement in a second school. Trainees will be working towards a PGCE in Pedagogy and practice awarded by The University of Sussex and Jersey Qualified Teacher Status.

Find out if you are eligible for financial support while you train by clicking here.

Your schedule is structured to balance training of up to 10 days delivered during pupil holidays, with central training and protected study time each week in term time.

You can select your major and minor subjects in accordance with your studies and passion and chose either the part- or full-time route, whatever works best for you.

Please contact us to apply or find out more information.

Student route - any subject - Route 3

Duration: September to July
Student tuition fees: Paid by the Government of Jersey
Finance: Maintenance grant depending on household income
Level: Primary, Secondary and Further Education

As a student teacher, you will combine study and practical learning. You will start gradually with a few hours a week supervised teaching, slowly building to 50% during term split between two placements. Trainees will be working towards a PGCE in Pedagogy and practice awarded by The University of Sussex and Jersey Qualified Teacher Status.

Find out if you are eligible for financial support while you train by clicking here.

Professional Studies takes place one morning per week during term time.

Please contact us to apply or find out more information.

As a trainee teacher you will be allocated to a department in two contrasting schools for a major and minor placement. You will train alongside an experienced teacher (your subject Mentor) in each school. You will shadow them and gradually learn to teach their classes.

Click here to email us

Emilie Langlands

Cardiff University JGTTP 2021
English and Music Teacher, trained in Jersey

Why teach?

I moved to teaching from finance because I wanted to make a difference and have a greater sense of personal fulfilment every day.

Why Jersey?

I was not able to uproot my family and train in the UK so the chance to train here on the Island, and to continue my home life with my three young children, has been an amazing opportunity.

I became aware that English was a shortage subject. With an A Level in that subject on top of my Music degree I have been able to qualify as a teacher in both subjects and upgrade my English teaching knowledge with a Subject Knowledge Enhancement course.