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Initial Teacher Training – Financial Incentives 2025-26

News from the Department for Education

"We are offering tax-free bursaries of £29,000 in chemistry, computing, mathematics, and physics. Scholarships worth £31,000 tax-free will be offered in partnership with professional bodies for chemistry, computing, mathematics, and physics, and £28,000 for French, German and Spanish.

We are also offering a £26,000 tax-free bursary for biology, design & technology, geography and languages (including ancient languages). £10,000 tax-free bursaries will be available in art & design, music and RE and £5,000 tax-free bursaries for English. We are continuing to offer bursaries and scholarships to all non-UK national trainees in languages and physics.

We are also offering a grant funding pilot for mathematics trainees completing the new Teacher Degree Apprenticeship. Our grant funding is in addition to apprenticeships levy funding."

Find out more here.