Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 58475

Teachers: Training

Tabled: 9 June 2025
Answered: 17 June 2025

Question

Sarah Gibson

Liberal DemocratChippenham

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department has made an assessment of the regional distribution of ineligible applicants for teacher training bursaries based on degree classification; and how many ineligible applicants there were i

Answer

Catherine McKinnell
Initial teacher training (ITT) bursaries are designed to incentivise more applications to ITT courses from high-achieving graduates. As such, for postgraduate bursaries, we take account of the grade of the trainee’s highest academic qualification. These b...

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