Equality Impact Assessment for Teaching Bursary Scheme in Scotland

The Teaching Scotland Bursary scheme provides 128 bursaries of £12,500 to

incentivise individuals to undertake a one-year Post Graduate Diploma in Education. (PGDE) Initial Teacher Education (ITE) course that leads to the award of registered teacher status in the hardest-to-fill teaching subjects.


Equality Impact Assessment for Teaching Bursary Scheme in Scotland

Title of policy:

Teaching Bursary Scheme in Scotland

Summary of aims and desired outcomes of Policy:

To incentivise individuals to undertake a one-year Professional Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) to train in the hard to fill teaching subjects - Physics, Maths, Technical Education, Computing Science, Chemistry, Home Economics, Gaelic as a secondary subject, Gaelic medium across all secondary subjects and in primary and Modern Languages.

Directorate: Education

Division: Workforce, Quality and Wellbeing

Team: Teaching Workforce

Contact

Email: Angela.Felvus@gov.scot

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