Back to Education Allowance for PME

Hollyworth

Hi,
I'm looking for some advice on Back to Education Allowance.

I've been offered a place on the Postgraduate Master of Education starting in September.
I already have a Level 8 Degree in Law, but as that cannot be taught at secondary school I had to do a Higher Diploma in a subject that could be taught in secondary school, in my case I did a Hdip in History.

When I did the Hdip last year I applied for the BTEA but was refused because I was not on the dole long enough.

Now I see on the website that you can receive the BTEA if you are doing the PME, which I will be, but there is a single sentence right at the end which is worrying me: "you will not be eligible for the BTEA if you already hold a postgraduate qualification."

Will I not be eligible now because of the Hdip in History? Even though I wouldn't have got a place on the PME without the Hdip in history!

It's very concerning. I'd be counting on that money as I would have to be going to and from Galway for lectures and then teaching training in a school somewhere.

Obviously I could just leave out that I have a Hdip on my application form for the BTEA and just put in my original degree but I'm sure they have a way of finding these things out.
I know September is a long way away, but the chances of me getting a job to fund it are very low now due to economy collapsing and the limited hours I could work which puts off employers.

Any advice would be welcomed.

zell12

You will qualify for Btea as it is progression
If you had a masters already, you would be refused.

PME is the only masters covered, and plenty of people have gone down this route. BA-HDip-PME all funded by BTEA

Hollyworth

zell12 wrote: »

You will qualify for Btea as it is progression
If you had a masters already, you would be refused.

PME is the only masters covered, and plenty of people have gone down this route. BA-HDip-PME all funded by BTEA

Thanks!!!!