Alumni PGCE Bursary Award

If you studied your undergraduate degree* with the University of Northampton and are enrolling on to a full-time PGCE Primary QTS 5-11 or PGCE Primary QTS 3-7 **course in 2025/26 then you will be eligible for the University of Northampton Alumni PGCE Bursary Award. This will be a £500 cash payment that will not have to be repaid and does not affect the payment of a student's maintenance loans.

Tuition fees for all full-time PGCE courses will be £9,535. Students from England will be able to apply for a tuition fee loan to cover their fees from Student Finance England. (Students from Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland should contact their home government for details of any support available to them).

Students must have studied and graduated from the following programmes with the University of Northampton to be eligible for the University of Northampton Alumni PGCE Bursary Award:

• 3 year BA/BSc undergraduate programme
• 2 year Foundation or HND course followed by a Top Up award

Excludes students studying a PGCE on the ''Schools Direct'' salaried route.