A study led by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has analysed the costs and benefits of different ITT routes and found that the cost to the government of each trainee teacher can vary by more than £30,000.
The main routes into teaching are the government-run School Direct (salaried and unsalaried), school-centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT), Teach First, the higher education institution-led PGCE and the Bachelor of Education (BEd), all of which lead to qualified teacher status (QTS).
But while trainees on some undergraduate ITT courses cost the government as little as £10,000, those who take the new School Direct (unsalaried) route and train in high priority subjects like maths and physics can cost around £42,000 each. This is because these trainees are eligible for a bursary award or scholarship funding in addition to student finance.
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