Teachers' student loan reimbursement: guidance for teachers and schools
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The Department for Education and National College for
Teaching and Leadership have published guidance on teachers'
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The Department for Education and National College for Teaching and Leadership have published guidance on teachers' student loan reimbursement. ContentsRegister your interestTeachers, schools and local authorities can register their interest and receive updates from the Department for Education. Teachers: register your interest Schools and local authorities: register your interest OverviewThe teachers’ student loan reimbursement pilot aims to increase recruitment and retention of languages, physics, chemistry, biology and computer science teachers. This guidance explains who can apply for a student loan reimbursement. Applications for financial year 2018 to 2019 loan reimbursement open in September 2019. Eligibility criteriaTeachers in years 1 to 5 of their careers must meet the employment and subject criteria to apply. Employment eligibility criteriaThis includes the length of service, location and type of school in which the teacher has taught. To be eligible for the reimbursement payments, teachers must have qualified teacher status (QTS) or qualified teacher learning and skills (QTLS). QTSTeachers with QTS must have received their award in one of the years specified below:
QTLSTeachers with QTLS status must be a member of the Society for Education and Training (SET) and have completed an initial teacher training (ITT) course in one of the years specified below:
Reimbursement periodsTeachers will be eligible for reimbursement payments for up to 11 financial years.
For the reimbursement period, teachers must be employed in a state-funded secondary (including middle-deemed secondary schools) in England, in either a:
Eligible local authoritiesThe school must be in one of the 25 eligible local authorities:
Teachers must still be working as a teacher in a state-funded school in England when they claim for a student loan reimbursement. Teachers employed in a private school or sixth-form college are not eligible for the student loan reimbursement. Supply teachers are eligible if they meet all of the eligibility criteria. They must provide appropriate evidence to support this. Subject eligibility criteriaTeachers must teach at least one of the eligible subjects:
Teachers must have spent at least 50% of their contracted hours teaching at least one of the eligible subjects during the year for which they are claiming. Schools may be asked to confirm this during the application process. PaymentThe amount reimbursed is dependent on salary, and consequently the amount of the student loan repaid to the Student Loans Company. We will reimburse teachers at the beginning of the academic year following a successful application. To note:
The reimbursement payments are:
Teachers do not need to declare the student loan reimbursement payments to the Student Loans Company. Apply for a student loan reimbursementApplications for the financial year 2018 to 2019 open in September 2019. Applications for the financial year 2019 to 2020 open in September 2020. |