Teachers: Training

(asked on 17th April 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, for what reasons his Department does not offer a subject knowledge enhancement grant to people training as religious education teachers; and if he will take steps to offer such grants for people wishing to train as teachers in that subject.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 26th April 2018

Religious Education (RE) is important to the Department and is mandatory in all state funded schools.

Funding for subject knowledge enhancement (SKE) training supports universities and schools in recruiting to initial teacher training places in priority subjects. Although funding for SKE does not extend to RE, the Department has protected the bursaries for trainees in RE this year, in recognition of the recruitment challenges faced. Funding is also being continued for schools offering School Direct (salaried) places in RE. Teacher supply modelling, and the financial incentives that support teacher training, are reviewed on an annual basis.

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