The Scottish Government is investing more than £2million in an extra 250 teacher training places.
The planned increase of 150 primary and 100 places will bring the total intake to about 3,230 for 2015-16 – a rise for the fourth year in a row.
This breaks down to 1,170 post-graduate primary places, up 150 since last year, 710 undergraduate primary places, 1,165 secondary places, up 100 since last year and 185 undergraduate secondary places.
The money will be shared by eight teacher training providers in Scotland, including Aberdeen University.
Education Secretary Angela Constance said: ”
“We want our schools to have the right number of teachers with the right skills to ensure our young people continue to benefit from Scotland’s world-class education system.
“Our priority is to maintain teacher numbers in line with pupil intake.”
Figures released last month showed teacher numbers in the north and north-east have increased slightly in the last 12 months.
There is a total of 1,707 staff in Aberdeen in 2014 in comparison to 1,687 the year before.
A total of 887 teachers were employed by Moray Council this year, up from 885 in 2013. The 2014 figure for Highland Council was 2,370, compared to 2,365 last year.
In Aberdeenshire, 2,700 teachers were employed in 2014, down one on the previous year.
Elsewhere, statistics showed the number of local authority teachers across Scotland fell from 51,078 in 2013 to 50,824 this year, while the pupil teacher ratio increased from 13.5 to 13.6.
There has also been an increase in average primary school class sizes from 23.2 in 2013 to 23.3 this year.
Labour education spokesman Iain Gray said: “More teachers in training is, of course a good thing but this announcement is designed to hide the fact that every year of SNP Government has seen fewer teachers actually teaching our children.
“Indeed, we have lost 4,000 teaching jobs during the SNP’s time in office.”