It is only available to teachers who train through a postgraduate ITT course leading to qualified teacher status (QTS). You can download the eligibility guidance available from this page for further information.
The standard deadline for teachers to apply for golden hello is 12 months after completing their induction year.
The rate paid for golden hello varies between £2,500 and £5,000 according to the subject and year in which a teacher started their postgraduate training. Payments are made to eligible teachers following application to the local authority.
Please select the appropriate link to the section that applies to you:
Information on golden hellos for potential trainee teachers
Information on golden hellos for teachers
Information on golden hellos for local authorities
Information on golden hellos for ITT providers
Funding arrangements from 1 August 2008
For trainees starting primary postgraduate ITT courses after 1 August 2008 the bursary will be reduced from £6,000 to £4,000.
For trainees starting secondary postgraduate English, dance and drama ITT courses after 1 August 2008, the bursary will be reduced from £9,000 to £6,000. Trainees on these courses will not be eligible to receive a golden hello.
For general enquiries about the golden hello scheme please call the Teaching Information Line on 0845 6000 991.
Golden hellos only apply to teachers of secondary schools. If you are a further education teacher, please visit www.teachernet.gov.uk/fegoldenhellos for more information.
Changes to the golden hello eligibility guidance
Following the announcement by the Secretary of State, an anomaly has been removed from the golden hello eligibility criteria.
This change means that teachers trained on postgraduate courses in Northern Ireland or Scotland after 1 August 2006 who go on to teach in eligible schools in England will now be eligible to apply for the golden hello under the same terms as their English-trained counterparts.
In order to ensure that this change does not provide more favourable terms for Northern Irish and Scottish than for English-trained teachers, the requirement that a teacher needs to have had a TDA-funded bursary during their postgraduate training has been removed. This should have very limited impact as very few teachers will have funded their own postgraduate training. As a result of these changes we have updated the golden hello guidance for administrators and the associated eligibility guidance.
