Eligibility of teachers qualified outside Scotland
Teaching qualifications required
An applicant must have either:
- completed teacher education equivalent to:
- one academic year of full-time study or
- part-time study of 3 years of less or
- if academic and teacher education has been undertaken at the same time (e.g. a Bachelor of Education), have completed:
- full-time study of 3 or more years or
- part-time study of 7 years or less
Teaching qualifications should:
Please note that we do not accept employment-based routes to qualified teacher status which do not bear academic credit (e.g. Graduate Teacher Programme, assessment only route, Schools Direct (salaried) without PGCE) for registration.
Modern Foreign Languages teachers
Teachers of modern foreign languages in Scotland are required to meet a foreign residency requirement. Learn more on our dedicated page below.
Additional Support Needs (ASN) Registration
To apply for registration in Additional Support Needs, you must first be eligible for registration in either the Primary Education category or one of the Secondary Education registration categories and hold an appropriate ASN award. Find out more about ASN registration in our Knowledge Base below.
Employment based routes to QTS
If you have gained QTS elsewhere in the UK via an employment-based route, and have not completed an initial teacher education programme that meets the requirements set out above, you will not meet our requirements for registration.
