Funding to get professionals and graduates into teaching

Now Teach, Cognition Education and The Brilliant Club will receive a share of £10.7million government money to recruit professionals and graduates into schools over the next two years.

Now Teach is a charity that has encouraged more than 120 talented professionals – including a former Nasa scientist, an investment banker and a corporate lawyer – to retrain as teachers in maths, science and modern foreign languages.

Cognition Education will target career changers in the North East, North West, East Midlands and Yorkshire, with a particular focus on graduates in industries such as engineering.

Both Now Teach and Cognition Education will receive up to £3 million each over the next two academic years, which will contribute to candidate attraction and assessment, as well as recruitment and retention support. Both organisations are aiming to recruit at least 100 teachers per year.

Funding for this initiative is worth up to £4.7 million over the next two academic years, which will contribute to an uplift to the salaries for maths and physics PhD graduates. The Brilliant Club is also aiming to recruit at least 100 teachers per academic year. Teachers on the programme will receive a tailored package of support and professional development as they progress through their teaching career.

The funding aims to recruit 600 teachers over the next two years.