Finance for Initial Teacher Training

There’s financial help available if you’re studying to become a teacher. The type of help you can get will depend on the teacher training route you choose.

Initial Teacher Training: what financial help can you get?

All students taking an eligible course of Initial Teacher Training (ITT) are entitled to some form of financial help. There are a number of routes to qualifying as a teacher, and the type of help you can get depends on which one you choose.

Help available to both undergraduate and postgraduate students

If you’re doing a full-time undergraduate course of ITT, you can apply for Student Loans, grants and bursaries on the same terms as other full-time students doing a first higher education course.

Part-time and postgraduate students can’t usually apply for the full finance package aimed at full-time students. But you’ll qualify for elements of it for a course of ITT - whether you’re doing it full-time or part time, or as an undergraduate or postgraduate.

Follow the link below to ‘Initial Teacher Training - Student Loans, grants and bursaries’ for details of the finance package available to both postgraduate students and most undergraduate students who started their course in or after September 2006.

• Initial Teacher Training