Guidance

Educational Psychology Funded Training

Find out how to become an educational psychologist and how to get funding for our educational psychology training scheme.

From:
Department for Education
Published
11 April 2014
Last updated
17 February 2020 — See all updates

Overview

Educational psychologists assess individual children and young people at school. They support school staff with specialist advice to help children with special educational needs.

Funding is available to train to become an educational psychologist. There are 203 funded places available each year for 2020, 2021, 2022.

The Association of Educational Psychologists (AEP) run the central application process for all Educational Psychology Funded Training places.

More information about the funding available, the application criteria, which universities offer the training and how to apply can be found on the AEP website.

Contact

Educational Psychology Funded Training Scheme

Updates to this page

Published 11 April 2014
Last updated 17 February 2020 + show all updates

  1. Placement information updated.

  2. Additional information for non UK applicants

  3. Updated information

  4. Application round now closed.

  5. application round opening dates

  6. dates for open days have been published

  7. First published.

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