Taking Teaching Further (TTF) is a 2-year programme that supports further education (FE) providers to recruit and provide early career support to those with relevant knowledge and industry experience, to retrain as FE teachers.

TTF funding is available for new further education teachers who will teach across the 15 technical routes. These routes have been aligned to T Levels and technical qualifications as found in Skills England’s occupational maps.

Funding is also available to support recruits who will:

Providers can apply for funding to cover the cost of an early career support package, including a reduced timetable, for new teaching recruits. The funding available is:

TTF 2025 is open to eligible FE providers through 2 routes:

There is more information on each of the application routes and the changes to the delivery model in the corresponding guidance documents:

Registration for Taking Teaching Further 2025 closes at 5pm on 4 July 2025.

If your college is part of a college group, registration must be done at group level by the college with a direct relationship with the Department for Education (DfE).

The registration form should take no longer than 15 minutes to complete. You will need:

You will need to provide the number of TTF 2025 places you think you will need in the initial allocation. There will be a .

You will need to indicate the training route for each requested place.

Route 2 is administered on a first-come-first-served basis, so the registration window for this will close once all available places are allocated. You should register as soon as possible.

There is an option to register an expression of interest if any additional places become available, however these are subject to availability and are not guaranteed.

The privacy notice for education providers’ workforce, including teachers explains how DfE uses personal information in TTF. This includes information you give to us, or information that we may collect about you.

We aim to confirm initial allocations by July 2025.

We will contact all registered TTF leads from September 2025 to finalise these initial allocations. Any additional places are subject to availability.

We aim to confirm final allocations of TTF 2025 places in October 2025.

If you need further information, contact TTF[email protected].

Published 26 May 2021

Last updated 6 June 2025 show all updates