The application deadline to join the Teach First Leadership Development Programme (LDP) in 2016 is fast approaching, so if you are interested in applying we strongly recommend starting your application now.Get your application in before the Easter break and you could have an offer for a career-defining challenge before you graduate.

The two-year LDP combines teacher training and a fully-funded Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) with one-to-one coaching to develop your personal and leadership qualities. If you can inspire in the classroom, you can bring resilience, efficiency and imagination to any working environment, no matter where your career takes you.

8,600 people like you have joined the LDP so far. Many have remained teachers, many are now working in influential roles and leadership positions in all sectors of the economy. What they all have in common is a belief that every child should have equal opportunities in education and in life, and the knowledge they are contributing towards this goal.

Apply now for the 2016 cohort and join thousands of others committed to ending educational inequality.

Teach First develops leaders for life.