Find out about the ITT Bursaries, Scholarships and School Direct (Salaried) grants for the academic year 2020 – 21 at the Department for Education (DfE): Get Into Teaching website.

Get up to £28,000 (TAX FREE) to train to teach – and then possibly some more!

And you may also be entitled to Additional Financial Support while you train.

The DfE provided bursary awards for 2020-21 are as follows:

Graduates with top degrees training to teach in ‘priority‘ Secondary subjects may be eligible for a Bursary Grant or a Scholarship of up to:

•  £28,000 Scholarship or £26,000 Bursary in ‘high-priority’ subjects for Trainees with a 1st, 2:1, 2:2, PhD or Master’s for:
  • Mathematics
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Languages (Scholarships for French, Spanish & German ONLY)
    • All of the above subjects also have three additional payments each of £2k after the 2nd, 3rd & 4th year in teaching (*see below as ‘Doncaster’ gives you even more!).

• • Computing – £28,000 Scholarship or £26,000 Bursary
  • Geography – £17,000 Scholarship or £15,000 Bursary

And for a 1st, 2:1, 2:2, PhD or Master’s, other subjects have Bursaries of:

• • Biology – £26,000
  • Design & Technology (D&T) – £15,000
  • English – £12,000 
•  £9,000  for:
  • History
  • Music
  • Business Studies
  • Art & Design
  • RE

*An increased incremental amount of an additional £1,000 will be available for Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry & Languages in the 2nd, 3rd & 4th year of teaching (i.e. £3,000 in each of these years): “to encourage the best teachers to teach in more challenging schools”. Teaching in Doncaster will entitle you to this increased amount.

Other subjects which are not otherwise listed above (e.g. Primary or PE etc.) do not have a bursary, so if you’re not sure if you’ll be eligible, please contact us to discuss your application, at:

NO!

We’re all the same in many respects, but very different in others. We all have to meet the same ITT Entry Criteria, but we go about it in very different ways and it’s the same with how you’ll be trained.

Even the 2nd ‘S‘ in ‘schools‘ is a key difference – will you get a chance to train in a range of contrasting schools [plr] or mainly be based in just one school (sgl), with just a short placement in a quite similar school?

See what one of our Trainees thought about his training with us.

So what should you be looking for?

• Training with an Accredited ITT Provider at the very heart of the programme, not just a distant university linked to a group of schools;
• Alliances with a broad range of contrasting schools, not just a few similar schools who’ve set-up to do Schools Direct;
• Having a choice about doing a PGCE or not and making sure it’s a full PGCE with 60 Masters Credits all at Level 7, not just a ‘PG Cert’ or with credits only at Level 6;
• Training provision with a history of delivering high-quality Trainee Attainment, not just a small group of schools who don’t have any real experience of delivering their own ITT;
• A Provider with a range of significant partner organisations (e.g. Local Authorities, Teaching School Alliances, Universities etc.);
• Not having to pay £9,250 if you don’t have to!
• Schools benefiting from being in a Social Mobility Opportunity Area (SMOA);
• A collaborative approach to professional development through the ‘Partners in Learning‘ Teaching School Alliance (TSA);
• A real focus on research in teaching through the recently established ‘Research School‘ as part of the Research Schools Network
•  Government supported recruitment and retention initiatives

Teach Doncaster!

The Doncaster ITT Partnership is an Accredited School Centred ITT Provider with nearly 17 years experience of delivering Outstanding Trainee  Attainment (Ofsted 2018); working with a wide range of Schools, Academies, Special Schools and PRUs, the Local Authority, Teaching School Alliance and the University of Hull (to deliver an optional PGCE) and all for far less than most ITT courses.

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