Teaching School Funding. The Teaching School was funded by the Department for Education/National College for Teaching & Leadership for a minimum period of four years (2013-17). This is the fifth year of annual grant funding. The grant of £40K per annum is expected to continue through to 2019 at the least. Payment of an annual grant The annual grant is paid directly to the teaching school with the purpose of enabling the teaching schools alliance to build the necessary leadership and administrative capacity to undertake its work in leading the alliance, including designating and brokering the deployment of System Leaders sponsoring practitioner research and quality assuring all the activity undertaken by an alliance. This is known as the core funding. Core funding was £60,000 for the first year. This funding decreased to £50,000 in the second year and was set at £40,000 for the third and fourth years. This reduction reflected the expectation that alliances will develop more of their own income as they develop. Funding for System Leader deployment will come from additional DfE/NCTL grant funding. Additional funding for specific activities Once designated, teaching schools can receive additional funding if they are commissioned or licensed to deliver activity relating to the six core areas of the teaching schools role i.e.: initial teacher training (ITT) or continuing professional development (CPD). There are three ways in which a school can receive additional funding: • as a licensed provider • commissioned directly by a school • commissioned directly by an organisation (i.e. NCTL, DfE) to complete a set activity In summary, the annual grant pays for the capacity to manage the teaching schools alliance and to carry out research and quality assurance, while funding for the delivery of services and support will come from whoever wishes to provide or purchase such activity. The sustainability of the alliance will, in part, be the result of its ability to generate funding on the basis that the alliance is offering high quality provision. The collaborative fund process Teaching schools are issued funding via the collaborative fund process. Following designation, teaching schools are asked to complete a set of collaborative fund terms and conditions, which shall be renewed at the start of each financial year. At the end of each financial year teaching schools will be asked to complete a collaborative fund evaluation in which they will be asked to clearly demonstrate how they have spent th...
Teaching School Funding. The Teaching School was initially funded by the Department for Education/National College for Teaching & Leadership for a period of four years. This is the final year of annual grant funding before the transition to the DfE’s new Teaching School Hub model. Payment of an annual grant The annual grant is paid directly to the teaching school with the purpose of enabling the teaching schools alliance to build the necessary leadership and administrative capacity to undertake its work in leading the alliance, including designating and brokering the deployment of System Leaders sponsoring practitioner research and quality assuring all the activity undertaken by an alliance. This is known as the core funding. Core funding was £60,000 for the first year. This funding decreased to £50,000 in the second year and was set at £40,000 for subsequent years. This reduction reflected the expectation that alliances will develop more of their own income as they develop. Funding for System Leader deployment may come from additional DfE grant funding. Additional funding for specific activities Once designated, teaching schools can receive additional funding if they are commissioned or licensed to deliver activity relating to the three core areas of the teaching schools role i.e.: initial teacher training (ITT), continuing professional development (CPD) or school-to-school support. There are three ways in which a school can receive additional funding: as a licensed provider commissioned directly by a school
