Labor to announce scholarship plan for high-achieving students to become teachers

Labor’s $147m plan to improve teacher quality will include targeting mathematicians and scientists to retrain in intensive master’s education degrees. Photograph: Martin Hunter/The Guardian

High-achieving students who want to become teachers will be given at least $10,000 a year to study education under a Labor plan to improve teacher quality.

Under the policy, to be announced on Monday, 5,000 students with an Atar of 80 or more will receive the scholarship to study an education degree, with an extra $2,000 bonus a year for those who teach in a regional area.