Government funding for specialist teacher training in Dyslexia-SpLD

Wednesday 4th November 2009

Following the publication in June of the "No to Failure" project Final Report and the Rose report entitled "Identifying and Teaching Children and Young People with Dyslexia and Literacy Difficulties", the Government is now implementing the recommendations made.

Over the next 2 years, the DCSF will be funding up to 4,000 places on specialist teacher training courses in Dyslexia-SpLD. These will be specifically aimed at teachers with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) who are living in England only.  Course providers must be accredited by the BDA or OCR in order to be eligible to bid for fully funded places on their courses.

In keeping with the Rose recommendations, the courses funded will be either at ATS level i.e., Post Graduate Certificate at M level or VQ Level 5 or at AMBDA level i.e., Postgraduate Diploma at M level or VQ Level 7

If you are an interested teacher, who would like to know more about applying for a place on a course, please go to our 'Course Applicant Information' page.