Graduates offered £20k to teach - graduate jobs

Top graduates interested in teaching are being offered a £20,000 incentive to take up the career and boost secondary school standards, it has emerged.

The Daily Telegraph revealed that the incentive is due to be announced by education secretary Michael Gove in a consultation paper.

It will set out plans to offer first-class degree students a tax-free bursary in an effort to improve teaching standards in secondary schools.

It will also attempt to increase the number of staff teaching particular subjects, including Maths.

Those with chemistry, maths or physics degrees will be the most sought-after as these subjects have suffered from a dwindling number of teachers.

Graduates wanting to teach "medium priority specialisms" including IT, languages and design and technology, could also be offered around £13,000.

And for those wanting to teach secondary subjects or primary school a bursary of £9,000 will be available.

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