Trainee Jewish studies teachers for secondary schools will be able to get bursaries next year after the government agreed to provide funding for religious education.
No money was available from the Department for Education for secondary RE training this year.
But now the department has decided to fund 40 places nationally next year - including a quarter reserved for Jewish studies training at the London School of Jewish Studies.
Jonathan Bach, director of teacher training at LSJS, said the lack of funding had caused an "outcry".
But the government's change of heart, he said, meant that "schools can afford to do proper training for their Jewish studies teachers. The way to get high-quality teachers is to train them."
LSJS launched a new, one-year training programme for prospective Jewish studies teachers in autumn in conjunction with five schools: Hasmonean, JFS, Yavneh, King Solomon and Immanuel.
The eight students on the course this year have had to be subsidised by the schools themselves and Partnerships for Jewish Schools.
But next year's intake of 10 will be able to claim bursaries worth from £14,900 to £17,600 a year.
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