Postgraduate bursaries and scholarships

Postgraduate teaching bursaries and scholarships are only available for the subjects listed below. You cannot receive both a teaching bursary and a scholarship.

You must be eligible for student finance to receive a bursary or scholarship (unless you’re training to teach physics or languages).

You cannot receive a scholarship or bursary if you’re on a salaried teacher training course.

Subject	Bursary	Scholarship
Art and design	£10,000
Biology	£25,000
Chemistry	£28,000	£30,000
Computing	£28,000	£30,000
Design and technology	£25,000
English	£10,000
Geography	£25,000
Languages (French, German and Spanish only)	£25,000	£27,000
Languages (all other languages, including ancient languages)	£25,000
Maths	£28,000	£30,000
Music	£10,000
Physics	£28,000	£30,000
Religious education	£10,000

Bursaries

You do not need to apply for a bursary. If you’re eligible, you’ll automatically receive it.

To be eligible for a bursary, you’ll need at least one of the following:

• a bachelor’s degree class 2:2 (honours) or higher
• a master’s degree
• a PhD

If your course combines 2 subjects (for example, English and history), at least 50% of your course content must be made up of the bursary subject to be eligible.

You’ll also need to meet the bursary scheme’s individual terms and conditions.

Find out more about your eligibility for teaching bursaries(opens in new window).

Scholarships

Eligibility

To be eligible for a scholarship, you’ll need at least one of the following:

• a bachelor’s degree class 2:1 (honours) or higher
• a master’s degree
• a PhD

In exceptional circumstances, if you achieved a 2:2 in your degree you may still be awarded a scholarship if you have significant relevant experience.

Benefits

Scholarships are provided by charitable organisations with a passion for their subject area.

They offer more than just financial benefits, including:

• subject specialist events and webinars
• online and face-to-face workshops
• mentoring and coaching
• a community of ex-scholars, teachers and subject leaders
• access to classroom resources
• networking events during your teacher training and beyond

How to apply

Scholarships are offered by independent institutions. They set their own eligibility criteria and you’ll need to apply through the relevant scholarship body:

• the Royal Society of Chemistry(opens in new window) (chemistry)
• BCS The Chartered Institute for IT(opens in new window) (computing)
• British Council(opens in new window) (languages – French, German and Spanish only)
• the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, and partners(opens in new window) (maths)
• the Institute of Physics(opens in new window) (physics)

Each scholarship body will have its own deadline for applications. You can find these on their individual websites.

Undergraduate bursaries

You may be eligible for a bursary of £9,000(opens in new window) if you do a secondary maths or physics course that leads to qualified teacher status (QTS).

You may also be eligible if you do an opt-in QTS course in secondary computing, languages, mathematics or physics. This is where you start a standard undergraduate degree but then opt-in to initial teacher training to get QTS.

The amount you receive depends on the year that you start your QTS course. You do not get a bursary in every year of an undergraduate course. Depending on the type of course you do, you may get the bursary in your final year or final two years.

Undergraduate bursary if you’re former military personnel

You may be eligible for a £40,000 tax-free undergraduate bursary for veterans if you’re:

• training to teach secondary biology, chemistry, computing, languages, maths, or physics
• doing an undergraduate degree leading to QTS in England

Find out more about how to get support training to teach if you’re a veteran.

*The above information has been copied from https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/funding-and-support/scholarships-and-bursaries