The fund has been established after the government’s decision to cut training bursaries for RE PGCE students. The bursaries had been worth £9,000 a year, but were cut for this academic year and will not be reinstated for 2014/15.
The new “Common Fund” is being provided by four members of the Association of Church College Trusts – Culham St Gabriels, Keswick Hall Trust, St Luke’s Foundation, and the Jerusalem Trust. A total of £220,000 has been put up for non-salaried secondary RE teachers starting their studies in September.
The cut in bursaries for trainee RE teachers comes despite a
20 per cent shortfall in the target number of RE recruits in 2013/14, according to provisional data from the National College for Teaching and Leadership’s initial teacher training census in November.
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