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<p>For those starting initial teacher training (ITT) in the 2023/24 academic year,
the department is offering bursaries worth up to £27,000 and scholarships worth up
to £29,000 to encourage talented trainees to apply to train in key subjects such as
chemistry, computing, mathematics, and physics.</p><p>The department is exploring
new ways to recruit trainee teachers in subjects where there is a shortage. For example,
we are introducing a new scholarship to attract the most talented language graduates
to the profession.</p><p>Alongside our financial levers, the department is continuing
to invest in attracting the best teachers where they are needed most. For example,
we have rolled out a new ITT course designed to support more engineers to teach physics.
The department also awarded a contract of approximately £3 million to Now Teach in
2021 for the delivery of a National Career Changer Programme. Now Teach supports experienced
professionals with significant previous employment and industry experience, who may
not otherwise consider teaching, to transfer their skills to the classroom during
ITT and their first year as an Early Career Teacher.</p><p>Teachers in the further
education (FE) sector are often ‘dual professionals’ who have valuable experience
and expertise from industry and business. To support the recruitment of more such
specialists into FE teaching roles, our flagship Taking Teaching Further Programme
offers fully funded early career support, including a teacher training qualification,
mentor support, and a reduced timetable in the first two years of teaching, worth
up to £18,200 per trainee. In addition, the Taking Teaching Further Programme offer
has been enhanced with the trialling of a new financial incentive, worth £6,000 per
trainee, over two years, targeted at the most hard-to-fill vacancies. Backed by up
to £15 million of investment across the next two years, 710 Taking Teaching Further
places will be available, with up to half attracting the new financial incentive.</p><p>Bursaries
worth up to £29,000 each, tax-free, are available to those training to teach in a
range of priority subjects in the FE sector, including science, technology, engineering,
and mathematics. Relevant professional experience is taken into account when assessing
candidates’ eligibility for these bursaries, making them appropriate for people with
industry expertise looking to retrain as teachers. The bursaries programme for the
2023/24 academic year is now open for applications.</p>
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