News and updates
Contents
- Include a reason for deferral in Register
- Funding updates for the 2025 to 2026 academic year
- Teacher degree apprenticeship (TDA) training route
- Changes to trainee data fields for the 2025 to 2026 academic year
- Updating how you recommend trainees for qualified teacher status (QTS) or early years teacher status (EYTS)
- Get ready to submit your school placements data in Register
- Access previous funding information
- Submit ITT trainee data through HESA
- Create draft trainee records in Register for the 2023 to 2024 academic year
- Include reasons for withdrawal in Register
- Bulk recommend trainees for QTS or EYTS
- This service has replaced the TRA initial teacher training provider portal
Include a reason for deferral in Register
13 June 2025
You can now include a reason why teacher trainees choose to defer from their course in Register.
The aim is to better understand why trainees deferred. This helps us inform policy with the aim to reduce deferrals and increase trainee retention.
An optional free text ‘reason for deferral’ field has been added to the Register service. If you choose not to provide a reason for deferral, it will be recorded as ‘reason not given’.
This has also been added to the Register API for those accredited higher education institution (HEI) training providers who’ll be using the API to send data directly to Register in the 2025 to 2026 academic year.
Funding updates for the 2025 to 2026 academic year
25 April 2025
Initial teacher training (ITT) funding for the academic year 2025 to 2026
2025 to 2026 bursary levels will be set at:
- £29,000 in chemistry, computing, mathematics and physics
- £26,000 in biology, design and technology, geography and languages (including ancient languages)
- £10,000 in art and design, music and religious education (RE)
- £5,000 in English
Applicants may be eligible for a bursary if they have 1st, 2:1, 2:2, PhD or master’s.
2025 to 2026 scholarships are:
- £31,000 in chemistry, computing, mathematics and physics
- £28,000 in French, German and Spanish (no other languages)
For more information go to Funding: initial teacher training (ITT), academic year 2025 to 2026.
If you’re using the Register API or the bulk add new trainees CSV template, the FUNDCODE and BURSLEV reference data remains unchanged for the 2025 to 2026 academic year.
| Code | Label |
|---|---|
| 2 | Not fundable by funding council/body |
| 7 | Eligible for funding from the DfE |
| Code | Label |
|---|---|
| 4 | Scholarship |
| 6 | No bursary, scholarship or grant awarded |
| B | Undergraduate bursary |
| C | Veteran Teaching undergraduate bursary |
| D | Postgraduate bursary |
| E | Grant |
Teacher degree apprenticeship (TDA) training route
24 April 2025
Some ITT providers have been selected to offer a new teacher degree apprenticeship in the academic year 2025 to 2026.
In the Register service, this new training route will be labelled ‘Teacher degree apprenticeship (salaried)’ under ‘Other’ as an option to the question ‘What type of training are they doing?’.
If you’re using the Register API or the bulk add new trainees CSV template, the ENTRYRTE reference data will include ‘14’ for new TDA route for the 2025 to 2026 academic year:
| Code | Label |
|---|---|
| 02 | School Direct tuition fee |
| 03 | School Direct salaried |
| 09 | Undergraduate Opt-in |
| 10 | Postgraduate teaching apprenticeship |
| 11 | Primary and Secondary Undergraduate Fee Funded |
| 12 | Primary and Secondary Postgraduate Fee Funded |
| 13 | Provider-led salaried (postgraduate) |
| 14 | Teacher degree apprenticeship salaried |
For more information go to https://www.gov.uk/guidance/offer-a-teacher-degree-apprenticeship.
Changes to trainee data fields for the 2025 to 2026 academic year
1 March 2025
These are changes to the trainee data fields when submitting directly to Register via the ‘Bulk add new trainees’ CSV template or the API, for the upcoming 2025 to 2026 academic year.
- COURSEID or CTITLE do not need to be provided
- Degree type is now required for non-UK previous degrees — use the ‘non-UK degree type’ field and the HESA DEGTYPE reference codes
- ‘UK degree grade’ for trainees with previous qualifications:
- API - you should add all multiple previous qualifications
- CSV template – you should only use their highest-level previous qualification
Updating how you recommend trainees for qualified teacher status (QTS) or early years teacher status (EYTS)
18 July 2024
We’ve updated the way you recommend trainees for QTS or EYTS in Register trainee teachers (Register).
Your trainees’ degree fields in Register are now ‘mandatory’. You must submit accurate data into these fields before you can recommend your trainees for QTS or EYTS.
This update applies when you recommend a trainee within their trainee record, and when you recommend multiple trainees at the same time, using the bulk recommend tool.
If you need help meeting these requirements, email us at becomingateacher@digital.education.gov.uk.
Get ready to submit your school placements data in Register
29 November 2023
You’ll be asked to include school placement data in the next performance profiles sign off in Register.
The next performance profile sign off period will start in December 2023 with a deadline of 31 January 2024.
You’ll be asked to sign off performance profile data for registered trainees with a course outcome in the 2022 to 2023 academic year.
Type of placement data you must have in Register
Each trainee with a course outcome in the 2022 to 2023 academic year must have a minimum of 2 school placements.
You’ll need to check you have the placement school URN, if known, otherwise the school name and postcode.
Next steps for SCITT training providers
If you keep a separate list or spread sheet of school placement information, make sure you include the school’s Unique Reference Number (URN).
If you do not have the URN, you’ll need the school or setting name and postcode.
Next steps for HEI training providers
We’ll import the URN for all HEI trainee placements from the student collection into Register so that you do not have to re-key this information again.
We aim to complete this by late December 2023. You do not have to do anything at this stage.
You’ll be contacted by early January 2024 to let you know when the import is complete. You can then:
- check for any gaps in your placement information in Register
- update any missing placement information in Register
Why collecting placements data is important
Trainee teachers need varied classroom experience and must have taught classes to pupils in two schools prior to the award of Qualified Teacher Status. This is called ‘placements’.
If we collect placement data in one place, we can analyse and use it to inform policy decisions, and help providers find placements more efficiently and effectively.
Access previous funding information
5 October 2023
You can now view and download funding information from previous academic years in Register.
Go to the ‘Funding’ tab to select from a list of ‘Payment Schedules’ or ‘Trainee Summary’ by academic year.
In Payment Schedules you can:
- download a CSV file by academic year
- view payments by month
- view running totals
- view predicted payments
- view payment types
In Trainee Summary you can:
- download a CSV file by academic year
- view by payment type
- view payment type breakdown by route or course, number of trainees, amount per trainee and totals
Submit ITT trainee data through HESA
11 September 2023
The 2023/24 HESA data collection system is now open.
Training providers can start submitting their ITT trainee data to the DfE through HESA.
This trainee data will be imported from HESA into the Register trainee teachers service (Register).
Create draft trainee records in Register for the 2023 to 2024 academic year
4 August 2023
SCITTs, and HEIs with trainees that do not go through HESA, can now start creating draft trainee records in Register for the 2023 to 2024 academic year. You can either register your trainees immediately or wait, and register them closer to the start of their course.
Applications from Apply for teacher training (Apply) with a ‘recruited’ status will also be imported into Register as draft records. From 4 August, applications will import into Register every day at 4am. You should not need to manually duplicate applications from Apply into Register.
Include reasons for withdrawal in Register
17 July 2023
Training providers can now include further detail on why ITT trainees choose to withdraw from their course.
Providers can select one or multiple reasons for withdrawal as appropriate.
Find out how to withdraw, defer, reinstate or recommend a trainee for QTS or EYTS.
Bulk recommend trainees for QTS or EYTS
5 June 2023
You can now recommend multiple trainees at the same time for QTS or EYTS.
Read about how to bulk recommend trainees.
This service has replaced the TRA initial teacher training provider portal
2 June 2023
Higher education institutions (HEIs) must now use this service instead of the provider portal to:
- withdraw trainees who are no longer training for qualified teacher status (QTS) or early years teacher status (EYTS)
- defer trainees or reinstate them when they return to training - you can also do this through the Higher Education Statistics Authority (HESA) service if you used it to register the trainee
- recommend trainees for QTS or EYTS