Train to Teach

Apply for Teacher Training

All CTA courses are now live and open for applications.

These are now listed on the Government websites ‘Find’ (https://www.gov.uk/find-postgraduate-teacher-training-courses ) and

‘Apply’ (https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-teacher-training ) and can no longer found by searching for ‘Catholic Teaching Alliance’.

The Catholic Teaching Alliance is a school-based delivery partner of the University of Cumbria. All our courses are now listed as University of Cumbria courses, each with a different course code.

Course titles display as follows in ‘Find’ and ‘Apply’:

University of Cumbria SUBJECT (COURSE CODE) Eg. Drama

University of Cumbria Drama (V261) is the CTA Secondary (11-16yrs)

University of Cumbria Drama (P842) is the CTA Secondary with a post 16 strand (14-19yrs)

In ‘Find’

• Search ‘By University or other training provider’ by entering University of Cumbria (or their provider code, C99)
• Select Age Group, Primary or Secondary (NB, post 16 courses are under secondary)
• Answer questions which follow to narrow the search – selecting subject etc.
• Search results will be a list of all University of Cumbria courses in that subject, all with different course codes
• CTA courses can be found by their unique course code, e.g. University of Cumbria Primary (M871) is the CTA primary 5-11 course.

There is a list of the course titles including course codes on our website at https://www.catholic-teaching-alliance.org/pgce-courses.html