Students cannot apply directly to the Department for Education (DfE) for Turing Scheme funding. If you are a student who is interested in studying or working abroad, contact your education or training provider.

The Turing Scheme offers grant funding to education providers to support their students or apprentices to pursue study and work placements around the world.

Funding is open to UK and British overseas territories organisations from across the education and training sector, including schools and further and higher education providers.  

This funding allows education providers to:

Providers can apply for funding for students going to multiple destinations, as part of a single application.

The scheme has 3 application routes which are based on the type of education and training provided by organisations in the sector. They are:

Turing Scheme applications for the 2025 to 2026 academic year are open. Applications will close at 4pm on 14 March 2025. 

Independent assessors review and score all applications. We will communicate results to applicants in June 2025.

Schools and FE providers can apply as part of a consortium partnership. All education providers in consortium projects should be named in the application.

If you are applying for funding across 2 sectors, you will need to submit applications for the different routes separately. You can only make one application per sector.

Once you submit your application, it will undergo:

DfE is under no obligation to accept any application or make an award of funding. You are not eligible for funding towards any costs you incur in developing or submitting your application. Award of Turing Scheme funding in one academic year does not guarantee award of funding in subsequent years.

You must ensure that your projects follow the safeguarding requirements that apply to you in:

We cannot verify that you are compliant with the Turing Scheme eligibility criteria before you submit your application.

If you have any questions about applying, contact us.

The assessment criteria for the 2025 to 2026 academic year reflect the latest Turing Scheme purpose and aims.

Applications are scored against these criteria.

We use assessment scores to prioritise funding. This means that applicants who score highly are more likely to be allocated the funding they have requested. This is subject to:

Applications should include an overview of your project instead of each placement.

A placement refers to the study or work activity that you are organising for a student or group of students at a single destination. A project refers to your overall application, including all placements that you wish to facilitate for the 2025 to 2026 academic year.

In your application, you need to provide information relating to the assessment criteria.

Project vision (weighting: 10%, up to 400 words)

Summarise your proposed Turing Scheme project, specifically setting out how it will meet the Turing Scheme aims.

Enhancing skills (weighting: 30%, up to 1,000 words)

Explain who your Turing Scheme students are, what education or employment outcomes they will gain and how these link to the destination students will visit.

Tell us how you will measure the impact of your Turing Scheme student placements.

Outline, using data where possible:

Delivery plan (weighting: 30%, up to 250 words for each section)

Set out a delivery plan that includes:

You will also need to provide a breakdown of costs, including setting out how you will use organisational support funding. You can find more information on what you can spend organisational support funding on in the pages for each sector.

Applications will be scored against the criteria by independent assessors. Assessors can only score based on the information that is contained within the application, and will not consider any other information.

For 2025 to 2026 there will be a limit on how much funding schools and FE providers will be awarded, in addition to new grant rates for FE providers. More information is available on the pages for each sector.

If successful, we expect you to deliver the aims and intent set out in your application, including facilitating the proportion of placements for students from disadvantaged backgrounds and with SEND. Where this is not possible, you need to tell us why.

When you apply, we will ask you to summarise your processes to ensure value for money and prevent fraud and error.

In compliance with the guidance on managing public money and the Government Functional Standard for grants, DfE will verify whether your organisation has the necessary financial and delivery capability to meet the conditions of the grant by conducting mandatory due diligence checks, in proportion to the size of the grant and risk.

For education providers, these include confirming: 

For other types of organisations acting as consortium leads, these checks include:

For all organisations, we may check:

These checks are specific to the Turing Scheme. Receiving other government funding does not guarantee eligibility for Turing Scheme funding or that you will pass due diligence checks.

We may request further evidence and documents from you, such as audited accounts or bank statements, from you to support these checks. We reserve the right to decline an applicant based on these checks.

We will let you know whether you have been successful with your application by email in June 2025. A full list of successful applicants will be published after all outcomes have been confirmed.

If your application is approved, we will send you a grant funding agreement which you will need to sign before any funds can be released. The grant funding agreement is a legally binding document outlining the roles, responsibilities, terms and conditions that you need to follow to receive funds.

Before grant funding agreements are signed, you will receive further information on:

• assurance requirements
• timelines

If you are unhappy with the outcome of the application assessment, you have the right to appeal the decision. The appeals window will open after we have shared the results.

Published 4 January 2024
Last updated 3 February 2025 + show all updates