Human Resources

Scholarships

Teaching Scholarships

The Teaching Scholarship Scheme provides financial incentives to final year student teachers and new graduates to take up employment in schools with priority teaching vacancies. Up to 150 scholarship positions are available in each financial year

Teaching Scholarship vacancies can be progressively advertised throughout the school year.  Vacancies advertised for the start of the school year will commence on 1 January and the recipient paid from this date from within the school's Student Resource Package.  All scholarship vacancies must offer ongoing employment.

Principals interested in advertising a vacancy under the Teaching Scholarship Scheme should:

  1. check your school's eligibility to advertise a scholarship vacancy in terms of the scholarship categories;
  2. create an ongoing vacancy in draft mode on Recruitment Online, selecting 'Teaching Scholarship Program' as the classification;
  3. send the job opening number to  scholarship@edumail.vic.gov.au for review and approval; and
  4. if assistance required, contact the Schools Recruitment Unit.

In addition, principals can search the Recruitment Online talent pool for resumes that have been submitted by potential applicants. For further detail see Other Resources below. 

Maths and Science Graduate Scholarships

Employment opportunities in government schools have been promoted to scholarship recipients available for employment.  In addition to lodging a resume on Recruitment Online and responding to advertised vacancies recipients were also invited to publish their availability through this site. 

Principals are encouraged to advertise vacancies on Recruitment Online to attract these new graduates.  The Maths and Science Graduate Scholarship provided recipients with benefits of up to $11,000.  Vacancies advertised as part of the Department's Teaching Scholarship Scheme will potentially provide for additional benefits of up to $7,000. For rural appointments there is also potential for additional retention benefits. Usual suitability for employment and pre-employment requirements would need to be met.

For details on scholarship benefits and recipient employment preferences, see: Other Resources below. 

Special Education Scholarships

The Special Education Scholarship, a National Partnership / DEECD initiative supports current teachers seeking to complete an endorsed special education qualification. 

Applications for the 2012 scholarship intake closed 25 October 2011. No late applications will be accepted. 

Up to 95 scholarships are available under the 2012 intake of which a number are reserved for studies in the specialist areas of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Deaf education. 

Scholarship recipients will be selected from the pool of eligible applicants based on the best match to the highest areas of need.  Department and regional network priorities will be taken into account and include consultation with regions to target priority areas that have been identified in Regional Strategic plans and to ensure all regions are represented. 

For detailed information on the Program see the 2012 Intake Guidelines under Other Resources. 

Other Resources

Policy & Guidelines

Procedures & Forms

Related Topics

Contact Information

Schools Recruitment Unit
Phone 1800 641 943 Option 1
Facsimile (03) 9637 3418
Email: 

 

 

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