Education and training services

Tender description

The Secretary of State for Education via Department for Education (the Authority) has undertaken a procurement to appoint a contractor for a single national (England) contract (the ‘Contract’), for the provision of the High Potential Initial Teacher Training and Leadership Development Programme (‘the Programme’). The contract requires the recruitment of and delivery of teacher training to one cohort of 1750 high quality graduates/career changers who will start their training in September 2021 and complete their training in July 2023 (the ‘2021 Cohort’). The authority has appointed a contractor to deliver a single national contract for the provision of the High Potential Initial Teacher Training and Leadership Development Programme. The programme is intended to attract high quality graduates and career changers who might not otherwise have considered teaching or working in disadvantaged schools into teaching and place them in schools serving low income communities with high numbers of disadvantaged and low attaining pupils (‘Eligible Schools’). Programme participants will be employed to fill vacancies, undertake employment-based initial teacher training (ITT) and contribute to the Eligible Schools’ overall improvement.