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If you are beginning your PGCE in September 2010, you are advised to contact Student Finance England to apply for financial support from early March 2010 onwards. You can apply online at Student Finance Direct website. The assessment usually takes approximately six weeks.

Tuition fees

Expected to be £3,290 a year. A fee loan is available via Student Finance England and the Student Loans Company. You repay the loan once you have completed or left your programme and are earning over £15,000 a year.

Financial support

You should apply to Student Finance Direct for the support detailed below.

Grants (Maintenance Grants or Special Support Grants) 

Expected to be up to £2,906 and available from Student Finance Direct. If you are a student from the UK, part of this grant will not be income assessed; your eligibility for the balance will be assessed according to the income level in your home.

Student loans for maintenance 

The maximum maintenance loan available is expected to be £6,928 for students studying in London and not living in the parental home. 72% of the maximum loan is available to all eligible students; the remaining 28% is means tested according to your or your family’s income. A reduction of part of the loan will apply to students who are eligible for all or part of the maintenance grant. Contact Student Finance Direct for more information.

Parents’ Learning Allowance

A means-tested allowance, expected to be up to £1,508 a year is available to students with dependent children.

Childcare Grant

A means-tested grant of up to £255 per week for two or more children is available to students with dependent children in registered or accredited childcare.

Training Development Agency (TDA) funding

Teacher Training Bursary

£4,000 for students on the full-time Primary programme and the following Secondary specialisms:

• Art and Design
• Business
• History.

£6,000 for students on the following Secondary specialisms:

• English
• Modern Foreign Languages
• Religious Education
• General Science
• Biology
• Music.

£9,000 for students on the following Secondary specialisms:

• Design and Technology
• Mathematics
• Chemistry
• Physics.

You will need to produce your LA/Student Finance Direct student support notification to Roehampton’s Finance Office and you will then receive monthly payments.

Find out more about the bursary on the TDA website. 

"Golden hello"

When you have graduated and take up a permanent position in a maintained school or non-maintained special school in England, you may be eligible for a one-off taxable "golden hello" payment of £2,500 or £5,000. Find out more on the TDA website.

Roehampton University funding

Roehampton Bursary and Scholarship 

Roehampton offers a bursary of £500 to full and part-time PGCE students who have been awarded the full means-tested Maintenance or Special Support Grant. A scholarship of £1,000 is awarded to PGCE students with a first-class Honours degree on arrival at Roehampton. Equal instalments of both the bursary and scholarship are paid in February and May.

Access to Learning Funds

Available to registered students in particular financial hardship. You should have taken the maximum student loan entitlement. You should be aware that all the above funding and the TDA Bursary will be taken into account when your application for hardship funding is assessed.

Teaching Information Line

You can get more information on teacher training support from the Teaching Information Line on 0845 6000 991.