Ministry of Education

The Arrangement is the payment of bursaries that the Ministry of Education makes to eligible student teachers under the Go Rural: Isolated Placements Fund. The bursaries are awarded to student teachers who are hosted in an isolated or rural, state or state-integrated school while completing their Initial Teacher Education programme that is Teaching Council approved.

The Ministry of Education funds the bursaries.

To the extent that a bursary payment the Ministry of Education 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.