Guidance

Funding: initial teacher training (ITT)

Funding guidance for schools and ITT providers, including on bursaries, scholarships and salaried route grants.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 13 October 2020
• Last updated: 7 May 2026
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  1. 7 May 2026

     Updated to revise the eligibility in languages and physics for those who do not hold a course offer.

  2. 7 October 2025

     Added 'Funding: initial teacher training (ITT), academic year 2026 to 2027'.

  3. 10 October 2024

     Added 'Funding: initial teacher training (ITT), academic year 2025 to 2026'.

  4. 10 October 2023

     Added 'Funding: initial teacher training (ITT), academic year 2024 to 2025'

  5. 11 October 2022

     Added 'Funding: initial teacher training (ITT), academic year 2023 to 2024'.

  6. 17 May 2022

     Added a link to new guidance about the initial teacher training (ITT) reform set-up grant.

  7. 12 October 2021

     Added 2022 to 2023 guidance.

  8. 3 November 2020

     Updated with links to the 2021 to 2022 funding manuals which are now available.

  9. 13 October 2020

     First published.

Applies to England

Documents

Funding: initial teacher training (ITT), academic year 2026 to 2027

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Funding: initial teacher training (ITT), academic year 2025 to 2026

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Funding: initial teacher training (ITT), academic year 2024 to 2025

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Funding: initial teacher training (ITT), academic year 2023 to 2024

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Details

This guidance is for schools and ITT providers delivering ITT courses in England.

It provides information about the funding available for ITT courses, including:

• bursaries
• scholarships
• salaried route grants

Each guidance document provides funding information for that specific academic year.

Previous versions of the guidance are available in the National Archives.