A total of 25 former oil and gas workers are expected to take up teaching positions with Aberdeenshire Council.
The local authority is in the process of making offers for the scheme to 25 applicants, who will go through their inductions in mid-August.
The scheme involves undertaking the PGDE (secondary) qualification and is only available for those who intend to become a secondary teacher in a science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) subject.
A total of 15 offers will be for people who will embark on becoming maths teachers and around 10 for physics and chemistry.
Meanwhile, the most recent teacher vacancy figures for Aberdeenshire Council reveal that there are a total of 86 vacancies across the region.
This is an improved picture compared to August 2015 when 100 posts remained unfilled.
The local authority’s director of education and children’s services, Maria Walker, said: “When we began to experience real teacher recruitment difficulties three years ago we realised that we had to be creative about our recruitment practices.
“The DLITE programme and now the Transition into Education scheme have allowed us to train people who already live in Aberdeenshire and who want to stay in the area to become teachers.
“The downturn in the oil and gas industry has hit the North-east of Scotland hard and there are lots of very experienced and technically skilled people who are looking for jobs or a new career.
“By focusing on them we’re trying to fill a gap in secondary teachers of STEM subjects and I’m looking forward to seeing our first cohort start next month.”
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