Students starting a teaching degree next year can now apply for scholarships worth up to $40,000.
Up to 1000 scholarships are on offer in 2027.
Students will receive up to $40,000 for undergraduate studies or up to $20,000 for postgraduate studies in accredited initial teacher education degrees.
This is the fourth round of the Australian Government Commonwealth Teaching Scholarship program which is delivering 5,000 scholarships over five years.
The first three rounds were a big success helping 3,000 students as they studied to become teachers. Around 30 per cent of those recipients have been from regional, rural or remote areas.
The Commonwealth Teaching Scholarships Program is part of the National Teacher Workforce Action Plan which is helping tackling the teacher workforce shortage.
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.
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.
