PGCE Fees and Funding

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ALL PGCE students meeting the residency requirements will be entitled to a tuition fee loan. Please visit the Direct.gov.uk website at www.direct.gov.uk/studentfinance  Alternatively you can contact the Student Loans Company Customer Support Office on 0845 300 5090.

Free Laptop

UCP Marjon is offering all new UK-funded full and part time students studying at undergraduate or PGCE level a free wireless enabled high-spec laptop. This laptop is yours to keep as long as you remain registered at UCP Marjon until 1st December, of the year in which you start your course.

To find out more about this great deal, please visit our Free Laptop web page.

TDA Incentives

In addition to the tuition support and student loans, the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) is currently offering further financial incentives and support (for those meeting the residency requirements) to offset the costs of PGCE training.

Trainee Teachers may be entitled to a tax free bursary from the TDA. The size of the bursary depends on training start date and the subject being taken. The new training bursary rates for eligible postgraduate trainee teachers starting eligible postgraduate ITT courses on or after 1st August 2010 are set out below. For more information visit www.tda.gov.uk.

Secondary Chemistry - £9,000
Secondary ICT - £9,000
Secondary Mathematics - £9,000
Secondary Physics - £9,000
Secondary Biology - £6,000
Secondary Combined/General Science - £6,000
Secondary English - £6,000
Secondary Geography - £6,000
Secondary Modern Foreign Languages - £6,000
Secondary Religious Education - £6,000
Secondary Art & Design- £4,000
Secondary Diploma – Creative and Media - £4,000
Secondary Physical Education - £4,000
Primary - £4,000
Primary with Modern Foreign Languages - £4,000

Golden Hellos

Golden Hellos are taxable, one-off payments made at the start of the second year of teaching, after successful completion of the induction period and subject to eligibility criteria. The subjects and rates below apply for those teachers starting their postgraduate course (e.g. PGCE) in academic year 2009/10 or 2010/11. For more information visit www.tda.gov.uk

Secondary Mathematics - £5,000
Secondary Science - £5,000
Secondary ICT - £2,500
Secondary Modern Foreign Languages - £2,500
Secondary Religious Education - £2,500

Access to Learning Fund

UCP Marjon also has an Access to Learning Fund to assist UK students in exceptional financial difficulty such that continued attendance on their course may be at risk.  Students eligible for other bursaries, grants or scholarships must apply to those schemes in the first instance.  In assessing hardship, all available sources of funding, including training bursaries and student loans, must have been utilised by the student.  All awards from the Access to Learning Fund are discretionary. Students with dependants may apply to their Local Education Authority for financial assistance from the ‘Parents Learning Allowance’.

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