Qualified teacher status (QTS): qualify to teach in England
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Find out how to obtain qualified teacher status (QTS) to teach in a maintained school or non-maintained special school in England.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 3
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Governance & assurance
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Find out how to obtain qualified teacher status (QTS) to teach in a maintained school or non-maintained special school in England. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Overview
- Schools where QTS is a legal requirement
- Schools where QTS is not a legal requirement
- Teachers who trained in England
- Teachers who trained in Wales
- Teachers trained in Northern Ireland and Scotland
- Teachers who trained outside the UK
- Recognition of QTS for teachers who want to teach overseas
- Qualified teacher learning and skills (QTLS)
- Independent sector teachers
- Contact
Source and licence
Department for Education
AttributionDepartment for Education, ‘Qualified teacher status (QTS): qualify to teach in England’ (updated 18 June 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026