Careers in Teaching Week, 24-28 November 2025
Teaching is an option for many Royal Holloway graduates and our teaching-focused careers events provide the opportunity to meet lots of teacher training providers, as well as discover the many routes into teaching.
Upcoming Events
Careers Guide
The title “teacher” can cover a huge range of jobs in many different kinds of educational establishment and this guide will help you to identify your place in this diverse and socially important profession:
Further resources
The Department of Education's Get Into Teaching website is a really useful online resource where you can explore your options and get support and advice. Register with them to get tailored advice and information about teacher training.
Prospects is a useful website, where you can explore the different roles in a sector. Check out their teaching role profiles:
If you are considering teaching but not necessarily want to be a classroom teacher, check out this recent Education Alternatives article.
Bursaries
For 2025 to 2026 The Department for Education offered bursaries of:
- £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
The bursaries for 2026-27 will be released in late autumn 2025. More information is available on the government website here.
Webinars to watch
This session will provide insight into the various teaching routes available, including an application and interview guide for teacher training courses at St Mary's University, Twickenham.
Hosted by the St Mary's ITE Recruitment Lead, this session includes a presentation and a short Q&A.
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Improve your CV and become one step closer to the start of your teacher training journey.
Join United Teaching to discover everything school-based teacher training has to offer. You will learn how to land a teacher training role after graduating – from the essential skills you need to develop and demonstrate, top tips for your application, and advice on how to impress at your interview.
In this interactive session, you will:
- Hear from one of our trainees
- Understand what makes a good teacher and what teacher training providers are looking for
- Leave the session with actionable insights you can implement straight away
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We’ve got your back so you can get theirs. Children from a disadvantaged background are 18 months behind their peers by the time they take their GCSEs. But with great teachers and brilliant leaders, everything’s possible. Every year we help thousands of graduates develop their skills on our Training Programme, and now we’re extending that support to undergraduates too.
Our teachers present all day, every day but we recognise it’s not always easy to talk in front of people. Being prepared and knowing what employers are looking for can help make it less daunting.
This skills session pulls together our expertise to show you how to structure your presentations with top tips for delivery, so you can feel confident to take on public speaking wherever your degree takes you.
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This session was presented by Clive Woolger, a PGCE Admissions Tutor and Senior Lecturer at St. Mary's University. He shared his knowledge on the different routes into Primary and Secondary teaching and his understanding of the application system.
Watch the recording here
Recorded November 2023
Teach First ran a series of skills sessions during the week, to support the building of essential skills for the application process and graduate careers.
1. Teaching yourself Resilience
You’ll need patience, energy and a positive mindset to persevere as a teacher. Not to mention tenacity and versatility to overcome the obstacles you’ll face. Watch this skills session to build your resilience gradually, recognise your stress indicators and develop self-evaluation skills – essential for the graduate marketplace and beyond.
Watch the recording here
2. Problem-solving
This problem-solving skills session explored different techniques and approaches – essential for both the graduate marketplace and beyond.
Watch the recording here
Recorded November 2023