Do you get QTS if leave Teach First after a year?
Starting in September I’ll be a secondary school teacher with Teach First. Obviously I want to give teaching my best shot, but at some point I am interested in doing a PhD (not in education but in English Lit) with a view to potentially becoming an academic. I haven’t made my mind up about anything, just want to know what my options are, but if I left Teach First after a year to start a hypothetical PhD would I still get QTS? I know that technically you get QTS and the PGCE after the first year of Teach First, but also I’m pretty sure that it is the school you’re stationed at who apply/forward you for the QTS. Might they potentially refuse to help you get QTS if after a year you decided to leave?
I’ll probably do the two years anyway, but it would give me some peace of mind to know whether or not I could leave TF after a year with QTS. You never quite know how you’re going to take to something until you’ve actually started doing it.