Guidance

Funding: initial teacher training (ITT)

Funding guidance for schools and ITT providers including bursaries, scholarships and salaried route grants.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 13 October 2020
• Last updated: 10 October 2024 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Funding: initial teacher training (ITT), academic year 2025 to 2026

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Funding: initial teacher training (ITT), academic year 2024 to 2025

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Funding: initial teacher training (ITT), academic year 2023 to 2024

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Details

This guidance is for schools and ITT providers delivering ITT courses in England.

It provides information about the funding available for ITT courses including:

• bursaries
• scholarships
• salaried route grants

Each guidance document provides funding information for that specific academic year.

Previous versions of the guidance are available on the UK Government Web Archive.

Published 13 October 2020
Last updated 10 October 2024 + show all updates

1. 10 October 2024

   Added 'Funding: initial teacher training (ITT), academic year 2025 to 2026'.

2. 10 October 2023

   Added 'Funding: initial teacher training (ITT), academic year 2024 to 2025'

3. 11 October 2022

   Added 'Funding: initial teacher training (ITT), academic year 2023 to 2024'.

4. 17 May 2022

   Added a link to new guidance about the initial teacher training (ITT) reform set-up grant.

5. 12 October 2021

   Added 2022 to 2023 guidance.

6. 3 November 2020

   Updated with links to the 2021 to 2022 funding manuals which are now available.

7. 13 October 2020

   First published.