Students starting teaching degrees in 2026 can now apply for scholarships worth up to $40,000.
This is the third round of the Australian Government's $160 million Commonwealth Teaching Scholarships Program, which is delivering 5,000 scholarships over five years.
The first and second rounds have been highly successful. Almost 2,000 students have received scholarships with 30 per cent of students being from regional, rural or remote areas.
The scholarships are targeted at high achieving school leavers and mid-career professionals from diverse backgrounds. This includes First Nations peoples, people with disability, people for whom English is an additional language or dialect, people from rural, regional and remote locations, and people from low socio-economic backgrounds.
Students will receive up to $40,000 for undergraduate studies or up to $20,000 for postgraduate studies in accredited initial teacher education degrees.
The scholarships include a 'commitment to teach' requirement, which means recipients must be willing to commit to teach for four years (undergraduate) and two years (postgraduate) in government-run schools or early learning settings.
The scholarship program is part of the National Teacher Workforce Action Plan which is tackling the teacher workforce shortage.
