Vantaggi
- They put you through your PGDE, so if you're planning on becoming a teacher, you save money on tuition fees.
Svantaggi
- You do about a month and a half of unpaid training, followed by an unpaid month off, then you get your salary at the end of your first month working. So after having to travel several times for the assessment centre and the tests and the training, having to survive for three months without a wage, having to spend money on relocating and having to buy a laptop for summer institute, you're left with a lot of debt. - You end up working 60 hour weeks and getting paid the bare minimum they can legally pay you as an unqualified teacher for your first year. If you work it out hourly in terms of all of the extra stuff you have to do at home, it's not even minimum wage. - They place you in the worst schools in the UK right from the outset so you end up with massive behavioural management issues in your class which you've had only about 5 hours training on how to deal with.