Scholarships and Incentives
Teaching Scholarships - How they work
Scholarship recipients receive:
- ongoing employment
- employment from 1 January for vacancies advertised for the start of the school year
- an up-front taxable payment between $3000 and $5000, which is centrally funded and paid shortly after you accept an employment offer. This payment must be refunded pro rata if you fail to complete at least two years employment (excluding approved unpaid leave) with the Department.
There is a four-tier scale of scholarship payments to reflect differing degrees of recruitment difficulty and Department teacher supply priorities:
| Category | School and vacancy descriptor |
|---|---|
|
Category 1 ($5000 up-front plus $4000 retention bonus) |
Designated Priority School (PDF - 145Kb) and Hard to Staff Subject Area (PDF - 56Kb) |
|
Category 2 ($4000 up-front plus $2000 retention bonus) |
Designated Priority School (PDF - 145Kb) and any other subject area |
|
Category 3 ($4000 up-front - no retention bonus) |
Rural School (PDF - 225Kb) and any other subject area OR OR |
|
Category 4 ($3000 up-front - no retention bonus) |
A metropolitan school and a statewide priority subject area (currently Maths and Special Ed) |
If you are a Category 1 or 2 scholarship recipient you are also eligible for a centrally funded Retention Bonus paid as a taxable lump sum after three years and two months (excluding approved unpaid leave) in the school to which you were originally appointed. The bonus is $4000 for Category 1 scholarships and $2000 for Category 2 scholarships.
Benefits available under the Teaching Scholarship are additional to the Commonwealth government HECS-HELP benefit offered to eligible graduates to reduce Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) repayments or debt.
More information
- Are you eligible?
- How to apply
- Selection process
- Scholarship offer and conditions
- Commonwealth HECS-HELP Benefit
Contact
Schools Recruitment Unit
Phone 1800 641 943 - selecting option 1
Email scholarship@edumail.vic.gov.au