Ministry of Education

The Arrangement is the payment of bursaries that Initial Teacher Education (ITE) providers make to eligible student teachers under the School Onsite Training Programme. To be eligible, student teachers must be hosted in schools 3 days a week while completing their 1-year graduate or postgraduate ITE programme, approved by the Teaching Council, that will lead to teacher registration.

The Ministry of Education funds the bursary payments that the ITE providers make.

To the extent that a bursary payment an ITE provider makes to a student teacher under the Arrangement is income, it is exempt income of the student teacher under s CW 36 of the Income Tax Act 2007.