Central Coast students beginning teaching degrees in 2025 can now apply for scholarships worth up to $40,000 which are designed to encourage more people to become teachers.
Member for Robertson Dr Gordon Reid said the Federal Labor Government was delivering on its election promise to deliver the $160M Commonwealth Teaching Scholarships Program.
“In designing the scholarships, the Government consulted with school principals and teachers, who spoke about the scholarships they received and how they often included a requirement to teach for a period of time,” he said.
“Based on this feedback, the scholarships will include a ‘commitment to teach’ requirement, which means recipients must be willing to commit to teach for four years (undergraduate) and two years (postgraduate) in government-run schools or early learning settings.”
The scholarships are targeted at high-achieving school leavers, mid-career professionals, First Nations peoples, people with disability, people from whom English is an additional language or dialect and individuals from rural, regional and remote locations or from low socio-economic backgrounds.
Reid said the scholarships were one of the ways the government was trying to boost the teacher workforce in areas that needed it the most.
“I encourage our best and brightest Central Coast students to register for one of these scholarships,” he said.
Scholarships of $40,000 each will be available for undergraduate teaching students over four years and $20,000 for postgraduate students over two years.
To encourage more teachers to live and work in remote Australia, students completing their final year professional experience placements in these communities may receive an additional top-up payment of $2,000.
The Commonwealth Teaching Scholarships Program forms part of the National Teacher Workforce Action Plan.
For more information go to education.gov.au/teaching-scholarships
Applications close at 5pm on Monday, January 13, 2025.
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