Business/ economics teacher training

[herigoagain]

I've seen there is a shortage of teachers for these subjects. I have a MSc/ BSc joint honours with Economics. Would I qualify for tuition fees (I did get a student loan - since repaid - many years ago) Any pointers on the best way to qualify too? I’m aiming to teach A levels.

There's no bursaries for either subject, but could you just train in maths (£29k bursary) and then just apply for business and economics jobs?

I’m not sure about bursaries for those subjects, but just to keep you realistic - if you work in a secondary school very unlikely you’ll just teach A-level. If you’re economics and business you’ll likely have Alevel classes in those subjects, GCSE business and KS3 PSHE/LLW or even Maths.

Yes teacher training is eligible for student loans, I have an undergrad/masters and PhD and started my teacher training last month and got the full student loan entitlement (tuition and maintenance)

definitely recommend doing maths though - then once you have QTS you can apply for jobs teaching economics/business - maths offers the 29k bursary

with the initial teaching training, you can do it via uni or via a SCITT, I chose the SCITT route, which means by week 2 of the course I was in my placement school and absolutely loving it.

Im six weeks in, and I’m already teaching part lessons, its nothing like I imagine and I absolutely adore the students, they are truly the best part of the job.

I am at a sixth form school, so I can observe year 12/13 lessons, and once I’m more confident they are happy for me to teach those lessons too.

any questions you have, more than happy to help and advise where I can!

Apply for independent school jobs where you don’t need QTS. They too are desperate for good Economics teachers. The amount of non specialists teaching economics is quite frankly, terrifying.

You can pm me if you want. I’ve been teaching econ and biz for 20 years.