Teach First

Take up the challenge

The link between low family income and poor educational attainment is stronger in the UK than in almost any other developed country. That’s not right, it’s not fair and it can’t be allowed to continue. Teach First’s graduates are doing something about it and having a massive impact on young people’s lives.

Teach First is a charity that provides the training and support to enable high-calibre graduates to make a real impact in addressing one of the UK’s most damaging social issues, educational disadvantage. At the same time, while they are transforming the lives of young people in schools around the country, Teach First helps graduates to dramatically enhance their own career potential, in schools and elsewhere, and become part of a movement that is effecting profound change throughout the UK.

Teach First offers an exceptional Leadership Development Programme that focuses on education, and which includes in its first year a PGCE qualification. With high-quality training, supportive coaching and ongoing alumni opportunities, Teach First provides a unique platform of skills and experience to take forward into any future career. That’s why over 80 companies, government agencies and public bodies back Teach First’s ability to effect change and to develop leaders for the future.

Put simply, graduates who can engage, manage and inspire a class of young people can handle pretty well any situation in any industry. Few other options offer the same degree of genuine responsibility so early. And rarely, if ever, will graduates have the opportunity to make such a direct and important impact.

Having already benefited from a quality education, graduates can now transform the futures of young people, and build a foundation for an influential career.

Take up the challenge, change lives, Teach First.

Applications for the 2012 programme have now closed. We will reopen applications for the 2013 Leadership Development Programme in early June 2012. Please continue to visit our website for the latest information.