Trainee Teachers

Information for students regarding Teaching Training Bursaries for academic year 2014/15.

Home students wishing to enter Initial Teacher Training in the academic year 2014/15 may be eligible for a Training Bursary.

To be eligible, students must first meet the conditions for entry onto the programme and be offered a place. If accepted onto a programme, the university then makes the application for a bursary on behalf of the student.

The amount of bursary that a student receives is based on their prior qualifications, the subject and the level they wish to teach at. The table below outlines the level of bursary against these factors:

Financial incentives for those who train in 2014/15

Training bursary 2014/15¹	ITT subject/phase
Training bursary 2014/15¹	Physics, maths	Computing	Chemistry	Languages	Other priority secondary⁴and primary	Primary maths specialists⁵
Scholarship²	£25,000	£25,000	£25,000	-	-	-
Trainee with first	£20,000	£20,000	£20,000	£20,000	£9,000	£11,000
2:1	£20,000	£20,000	£15,000	£15,000	£4,000	£11,000
2:2	£15,000	£15,000	£12,000	£12,000	£0	£6,000
Other³	£9,000	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0

Please note: the figures above are only for the academic year 2014/15, the size of award and criteria for priority subject is likely to change each year. For a complete list of ‘priority subjects’ see: http://www.education.gov.uk/get-into-teaching/funding/postgraduate-funding

For academic entry in 2014/15, every Home / EU student applying for Initial Teacher Training is eligible to apply for a tuition fee loan from student finance England (whether they receive a bursary or not).

Home students in England may also be eligible for a student maintenance loan or non-repayable grant. More information on the student loan for maintenance, grants and funding arrangements for trainees from the EU can be found https://www.gov.uk/student-finance/loans-and-grants