Round 2 offers of Commonwealth Teaching Scholarships Program go out 

Round Two offers for the Federal Government’s $160 million Commonwealth Teaching Scholarships Program went out late last week. 

Worth up to $40,000 for new undergraduate students over four years, and up to $20,000 for new postgraduate teaching students over two years, more than 3,300 applicants applied for the 1,000 scholarships on offer for 2025. 

The scholarships include a ‘commitment to teach’ requirement, which means recipients must be willing to commit to teach for four years (undergraduate) and two years (postgraduate) in public schools or early learning settings.

To encourage more teachers to live and work in remote Australia, students completing their final year professional experience placements in these communities may receive an additional top-up payment of $2,000. 

The scholarships are targeted at high-achieving school leavers, mid-career professionals, First Nations peoples, people with disability, people for whom English is an additional language or dialect and individuals from rural, regional and remote locations or from low socio-economic backgrounds. 

In the first round, almost 1,000 scholarships were awarded to initial teacher education students who started studying teaching in 2024. 

The Commonwealth Teaching Scholarships Program will deliver 5,000 scholarships over five years. The program is one part of our National Teacher Workforce Action Plan which is tackling the teacher workforce shortage.

More information on the Commonwealth Teaching Scholarships Program, including information on the application process, is available at education.gov.au/teaching-scholarships.