Guidance

Train to teach in England: non-UK applicants

Find out what you’ll need to train to teach in England, including information about qualifications, visas and immigration, and financial support.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 7 April 2021
• Last updated: 6 March 2023 — See all updates

This publication was withdrawn on 18 May 2023

Guidance on training to teach in England as a non-UK citizen is now available on the Get into Teaching website.

Separate guidance on applying for qualified teacher status if you teach outside the UK is also available.

Applies to England

• Publication for Northern Ireland
• Publication for Scotland
• Publication for Wales

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Train to teach in England if you’re a non-UK citizen

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This guidance is for anyone who wants to train to be a teacher in England and is not from the UK.

Published 7 April 2021
Last updated 6 March 2023 + show all updates

1. 6 March 2023

   Updated section on fees and financial support and added information about international relocation payments.

2. 19 December 2022

   Updated information about graduate and high potential individual visas.

3. 21 October 2022

   Updated the salary requirement for a skilled worker visa, to reflect changes to teacher pay scales. Clarified language on the relationship between settled status in the UK and eligibility for financial support.

4. 11 October 2022

   Information on bursaries and scholarships for those training to teach physics or languages has been added.

5. 4 July 2022

   Added new information on a test that people who do not have qualifications equivalent to GCSEs can sit. Fees for teacher training now range from about £12,000 to about £22,000. Eligibility for financial support has been clarified. Information has been added about the high potential individual visa, support for Ukrainian nationals, and the UK Visas and Immigration help service. Student Finance England and DfE’s contact details have been updated.

6. 18 March 2022

   We have removed the section on 'International travel during coronavirus (COVID-19)'.

7. 8 December 2021

   Added information about applying early due to requirements to pass criminal record and health checks, updated salary requirement threshold figures for a skilled worker visa and added Oak National Academy link.

8. 28 October 2021

   Updated guidance Train to teach in England if you’re a non-UK citizen.

9. 28 July 2021

   Added links to a 'worker' is someone who is employed or self-employed in the UK and a 'family member' is a spouse or civil partner, child and, sometimes, parent or grandparent.

10. 13 July 2021

    Added information on international travel during coronavirus (COVID-19) and updated information about the EU Settlement Scheme and Graduate visa for salaried and unsalaried teacher training courses.

11. 7 April 2021

    First published.