Learning Support Study Awards and Scholarships

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  • Teachers and Kaiako

 

We offer Learning Support Study Awards for teachers in early learning services and schools, as well as scholarships to support people undertaking specific specialist courses.

These awards and scholarships help us ensure the ongoing availability of a workforce with the appropriate specialist skills, knowledge and qualifications to support children and young people with additional learning needs.

Learning Support teachers’ study awards

Type of Award Application
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Application
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Blind and Low Vision Study Award 1 August 2023 12 September 2023 25 November 2023
Complex Educational Needs Study Award 1 August 2023 12 September 2023 25 November 2023
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Study Award 1 August 2023 12 September 2023 25 November 2023
Gifted Study Award 1 August 2023 12 September 2023 25 November 2023
Early Intervention Study Award 1 August 2023 12 September 2023 25 November 2023
Resource Teachers: Learning and Behaviour (RTLB) Study Award 1 August 2023 12 September 2023 25 November 2023
Advisers on Deaf Children (AoDC) Study Award  3 October 2023 9 December 2023 By the end of December 2023

Learning Support specialist scholarships

Scholarships are for students enrolled in these programmes.  

Type of Scholarship Number of Scholarships available Application
opening date
Application
closing date
Notification date

Psychology Internships

       
Speech Language Therapy Scholarship TBC 1 March 2024 24 April 2024 31 May 2024
New Zealand Sign Language Interpreting Scholarship TBC 1 March 2024 24 April 2024 31 May 2024
New Zealand Sign Language Tutor Scholarship

 

1 October 2023 30 October 2023 30 November 2023

Psychology Internships – Now offered as fixed term employment for internship period.
More information can be found through Careers in learning support – Education in New Zealand(external link).

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