The Allocation Process

When you completed your student application form you were asked to indicate, in order of preference, the 5 local authorities in which you would be willing to work for the induction year. All 5 options should have been completed. If you have a sponsorship with a local authority, please select 5 options and we will contact you in regards to this once we have had clarification from your university and local authority of your sponsorship.

A computer system matches and allocates each student to a local authority using the local authority vacancy and student preference lists.

Each student is chosen at random and matched against their five preferences, beginning with the first. Where an appropriate vacancy is unavailable, students are matched against their second preference, and so on until allocated to their fifth preference if necessary.

Therefore, students applying for the Teacher Induction scheme should be aware that they may be allocated to any one of their five preference.

Students are also given the opportunity to waive their five preferences in order to join the Preference Waiver Payment Scheme. This means that the student will be allocated to one of the 32 local authority and will receive £6,000 (subject to tax and national insurance) for doing so.

Your Allocation Letter

We will write to you in May advising which local authority you have been allocated to. The letter will include a contact name, address and telephone number for your allocated local authority induction manager.

It is the local authorities responsibility to allocate students to a school and they will then contact all students about their school posting. Any specific enquiry relating to the allocation should be taken up with your local authority directly.

You will also receive a copy of our leaflet, which lists the probationer induction day dates for each local authority. Please make sure that you are available to attend on the relevant day.

For more information visit our Frequently Asked Questions or the Scottish Government website.