New Zealand Ministry of Education / TeachNZ Opportunities

The Ministry of Education lists 90 scholarships. The award pays approved teaching-course fees and provides an NZD 30,000 annual allowance over the period of study, limited to three years. Recipients must complete a teaching bonding period, with the required service length depending on the scholarship study duration.

Applicants generally must be changing career or profession to teaching and have at least seven years of paid or unpaid work experience since leaving school, or qualify through specified unqualified-teacher or kaiāwhina/kaiārahi pathways. Applicants must be New Zealand citizens, permanent residents or residents; be enrolled, have applied for, or plan to enrol in approved initial teacher education; and meet the scholarship's Māori-medium, immersion or te reo Māori teaching focus. Previous TeachNZ scholarship recipients, already qualified/registered teachers and School Onsite Training Programme participants are not eligible.