Teaching
House of Lords
Lord Storey (Liberal Democrat)
To ask Her Majesty's Government what schemes and incentives are in place to attract graduates into the teaching profession.
Lord Hill of Oareford (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Education; Conservative)
We set out the schemes and initiatives we will be using to help attract more of the highest achieving graduates into teaching in Training Our Next Generation of Outstanding Teachers: Implementation Plan, published in November 2011. These include:
using bursaries of up to £20,000 to attract the best performing graduates in the subjects where they are most needed; in partnership with the Institute of Physics, providing up to 100 scholarships of £20,000 to help attract more of the best graduates into physics teaching;expanding the successful Teach First programme which places highly able graduates to work in challenging schools; andencouraging service leavers to become teachers through a new Troops to Teachers programme.