The Minister for Education and Welsh Language has announced a new bursary and grant to increase the number of teachers who can speak Welsh.
A new £5,000 bursary will be available to teachers who gained Qualified Teacher Status from August 2020 onwards, and who have completed three years of teaching Welsh or through the medium of Welsh. The bursary will initially be available until Autumn 2028 to assess its success in encouraging teachers to enter and remain in the profession.
Alongside this, a second round of the Welsh-medium workforce capacity building grant has opened, with a total pot of £800,000. This scheme provides small grants to schools so they can develop innovative ways of resolving the recruitment challenges they face.
This grant gives schools the freedom to tailor plans to the needs of their own locality, workforce and demographics.
Increasing the number of teachers who can teach Welsh and through the medium of Welsh is vital to realising the Welsh Government’s vision for a million Welsh speakers by 2050 and to achieve the ambitions of the White Paper for the Welsh Language Education Bill.
For further information please select the following link Package of support announced to boost Welsh language teacher recruitment | GOV.WALES
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