The government will increase teacher training bursaries and scholarships next year to attract new entrants to the profession amid a growing recruitment and retention crisis.
But the total funding on offer is still £70 million lower than it was in 2020 before bursaries were slashed.
The increase of some bursaries to £27,000 – the highest level since 2017 – will be seen as tacit admission that cutting incentives to the bone for 2021 entrants was a mistake.
It comes after analysis showed secondary subjects with the largest reduction in teacher bursaries attracted the fewest trainees in this year’s “grim” recruitment drive.
