Some graduates currently receive bursaries of up to £9,000, but under plans to raise the status of the teaching profession and improve the quality of teaching the government is proposing to hike incentives for the highest achieving graduates.
According to the DfE, only two per cent of the highest achieving graduates from the top universities train to become teachers.
Plans to increase this number were first set out in the Schools White Paper last November. Under the proposals set out today (27 June), graduates with at least a 2:2 degree will be offered some financial incentives while graduates with a third-class degree will receive nothing.
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