Department of Employment, Education and Training

More Indigenous Teacher's Plan

The Department of Employment, Education and Training's (DEET) 'More Indigenous Teacher's Plan' aims to increase the Northern Territory's Indigenous teacher workforce by fourty new teachers in four years. The plan identifies three specific programs that are currently underway which aim to increase the number of Indigenous teachers in DEET.

The programs target the following groups:

Indigenous Fellowship and Indigenous Scholarship Programs
This program is a co-funded partnership between DEET and the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR).

The National Indigenous Cadetship Program (NICP)
This program is a co-funded partnership between DEET and the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations (DEWR). NICP provides a financial and study support package to assist Indigenous people to complete a degree in Teacher education and become teachers within DEET.