The Ministry of Education is promoting teaching as a career and wants to help interested people in local communities to find the right Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programme.

We understand that people who want to stay within their community, need to study around work, have whānau or other commitments. You can find a programme that can accommodate your circumstances while studying to become a teacher. 

The ITE programme-finder tool makes it easy to find an initial teacher education programme that suits your circumstances, as you can filter programmes by criteria, such as:

• Location

• Sector  

• Mode of delivery  

• Length of study  

• Full-time/part-time

• Language medium.  

If you have any questions, contact the provider directly through the ‘coordinator’ listed on the programme-finder tool.

There are several TeachNZ scholarships available to future teachers. Current priorities for scholarship applicants include:

• Applicants planning to teach science, technology, or maths

• Applicants planning to teach in ECE or Secondary

• Applicants who are Māori, Pacific or planning to teach in bilingual or immersion settings

• Applicants from diverse ethnic backgrounds 

And applicants who are currently working in a school as a:

• Teacher aide

• Limited Authority to Teach (LAT)

• Kaiāwhina

• Kaiārahi i te reo