Wed, 23 Apr 2014From this month the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) will implement a Golden Hello Scheme for new graduate mathematics teachers in Further Education (FE).

The scheme is intended to support the retention of good teachers as part of the wider strategy to improve the quality of FE teaching and learning.

The scheme is designed to support new mathematics teachers who:

• are graduates

• have completed a recognised initial teaching training (ITT) programme (both post-graduate programmes eg. PGCE and Diploma in Education and Training delivered at Level 5), which enables them to teach mathematics to at least GCSE level in FE

• take up their first qualified teaching post between 1 April 2014 and 30 September 2015

• are employed to teach mathematics to at least GCSE level in a publicly funded FE provider, but not a Sixth Form College, for at least 50% of their contracted teaching hours

• intend to remain in employment for two years, as the payment will be made during the second year of employment.

The basic payment is £7.5k for newly-qualified graduate mathematics teachers. An additional payment of £2.5k will be paid on top of the basic payment to any mathematics teachers who also undertake an appropriate training course to enable them to support students who have identified special educational needs.