Teach First transforms outstanding graduates into inspiring leaders, ready to excel in any management career. Combining intensive teacher training and experience with an innovative leadership and management skills programme, Teach First is a unique opportunity to be different, and to make a difference.

High-profile recruiters from all sectors recognise that the skills and strategies developed in teaching are highly relevant and applicable to management careers. That’s why over 100 companies, government agencies and public bodies are backing Teach First to develop the leaders of tomorrow.

Teach First recruits high-calibre graduates from all disciplines to train and qualify as teachers. Before being assigned to a school, they will attend six weeks of intensive education training. At the end of year one, they will achieve Qualified Teacher Status – a qualification that means they can return to the teaching profession at any point in the future.

Alongside paid teaching, they also participate in the Leadership Development programme – designed and delivered in collaboration with our business supporters and Imperial College Business School.

Joining Teach First means spending two years teaching in a challenging East Midlands, London, North West, West Midlands or Yorkshire school, preparing and delivering real lessons to real pupils – it is no soft option. But few other career choices offer the same degree of responsibility so early, or the chance to make such an important difference.

Teach First is supported by Accenture, Capital One, Clifford Chance, Credit Suisse, Deloitte, The Goldman Sachs Foundation, HSBC, McKinsey & Company, Microsoft, Shell and UBS among many others.