The government’s teacher training bursaries are to be expanded to cover English Baccalaureate subjects, computer science, music and PE.
Until now, the training bursaries of up to £20,000 were aimed at the core subjects.
Alongside the new bursaries for computer science, universities and schools are being invited to run teacher training courses dedicated to the new subject from 2013/14.
However, funding for the current ICT courses will end “to reflect the disapplication of ICT curriculum”, the government has said.
Elsewhere, a separate chemistry teacher training scholarship scheme worth £20,000 has been unveiled in conjunction with the Royal Society of Chemistry. It will seek to award around 130 bursaries to graduates with a 2:1 degree or higher. The scheme matches the existing approach of physics scholarship with the Institute of Physics.
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