Asked by: Rushanara Ali (Labour - Bethnal Green and Bow)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which external agencies his Department used to promote the Teach Now scheme in (a) 2015-16 and (b) 2016-17 including (i) advertising companies, (ii) public relations companies and (iii) digital media companies; and how much each such agency was paid in each of those years.
Answered by Nick Gibb
The Department did not use any external advertising, public relations or digital media companies to promote the Now Teach programme in 2015-16 or 2016-17.
Asked by: Rushanara Ali (Labour - Bethnal Green and Bow)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse is for the marketing of the Teach Now scheme in (a) 2015-16 and (b) 2016-17 including the costs of (i) production, (ii) paid-for advertising, (ii) social media including facebook.
Answered by Nick Gibb
In 2015-16 the Department spent no public funds on marketing the Now Teach programme.
In 2016-17 the Department paid a grant of £11,400 to support the development of the Now Teach programme, through Ark Teacher Training. Up to £5,412 of this funding could be spent on marketing in accordance with Cabinet Office guidance.
Asked by: Rushanara Ali (Labour - Bethnal Green and Bow)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people have applied for the (a) School Direct (Salaried) and (b) School Direct (Non-Salaried) programmes in England in each year since 2014.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Data on the number of applicants to Initial Teacher Training (ITT) is collected by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), which administers applications to ITT and publishes data about applications and acceptances. Published applicant and application statistics from UCAS are available at: https://www.ucas.com/corporate/data-and-analysis/ucas-teacher-training-statistical-releases.
The number of trainees starting School Direct (Salaried) and School Direct (Fee) courses in England is published in the annual ITT Census. The latest publication relates to academic year 2017/18. Data in the academic years from 2013/14 are available in previous ITT Census publications. These are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-teacher-training.
The number of final year trainees on School Direct (Salaried) and School Direct (Fee) courses, the number of trainees awarded Qualified Teacher Status, and the number of trainees employed in a teaching post within six months of qualifying, is published in the annual ITT Performance Profiles publication. The latest available data relates to academic year 2015/16, and a time series to academic year 2012/13 is included in Table 5a of the Main Tables, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-teacher-training.
Asked by: Rushanara Ali (Labour - Bethnal Green and Bow)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people have been accepted onto the (a) School Direct (Salaried) and (b) School Direct (Non-Salaried) programme in England in each year since 2014.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Data on the number of applicants to Initial Teacher Training (ITT) is collected by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), which administers applications to ITT and publishes data about applications and acceptances. Published applicant and application statistics from UCAS are available at: https://www.ucas.com/corporate/data-and-analysis/ucas-teacher-training-statistical-releases.
The number of trainees starting School Direct (Salaried) and School Direct (Fee) courses in England is published in the annual ITT Census. The latest publication relates to academic year 2017/18. Data in the academic years from 2013/14 are available in previous ITT Census publications. These are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-teacher-training.
The number of final year trainees on School Direct (Salaried) and School Direct (Fee) courses, the number of trainees awarded Qualified Teacher Status, and the number of trainees employed in a teaching post within six months of qualifying, is published in the annual ITT Performance Profiles publication. The latest available data relates to academic year 2015/16, and a time series to academic year 2012/13 is included in Table 5a of the Main Tables, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-teacher-training.
Asked by: Rushanara Ali (Labour - Bethnal Green and Bow)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many School Direct (Salaried) programme places there are planned to be in each region of England for the academic year 2018-19.
Answered by Nick Gibb
For the 2018/19 academic year, recruitment to School Direct (salaried) is unrestricted in the majority of subjects, which means that schools are able to recruit to local need as opposed to targets set by the Government. Consequently, at this stage of the 2018/19 recruitment cycle, we are unable to provide the total number of School Direct (salaried) programme places planned for each region of England. The Department expects School Direct training places to be available across all regions of England.
The Department has allocated School Direct (salaried) places in Primary and PE in 2018/19, where recruitment is fixed. The table below sets out the distribution of these places by region.
Region | Fixed School Direct (salaried) allocated places for 2018/19 |
East Midlands | 81 |
East of England | 351 |
London | 936 |
North East | 14 |
North West | 41 |
South East | 492 |
South West | 82 |
West Midlands | 84 |
Yorkshire and The Humber | 121 |
Grand Total | 2202 |
Asked by: Rushanara Ali (Labour - Bethnal Green and Bow)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the retention rate of teachers and trainee teachers has been in each region of England in the last twelve months for which data is available.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Information on teachers leaving all state-funded schools in England, in the years following qualification, is available in Table 8 of the publication, ‘School Workforce in England, November 2016’ and can be viewed at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2016.
Information at regional level for 2010-15 is published as part of the statistical release, ‘Local analysis of Teacher Workforce: 2010 to 2015’ tables 2.2a and 2.2b. This publication can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/local-analysis-of-teacher-workforce-2010-to-2015.
Information on the outcomes for trainee teachers is available as part of the publication, ‘Initial teacher training performance profiles: 2015 to 2016’, which is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-performance-profiles-2015-to-2016.
Asked by: Rushanara Ali (Labour - Bethnal Green and Bow)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the drop-out rate has been of trainees who start on the School Direct training programme over the last twelve months for which data is available.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Data on the number of applicants to Initial Teacher Training (ITT) is collected by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), which administers applications to ITT and publishes data about applications and acceptances. Published applicant and application statistics from UCAS are available at: https://www.ucas.com/corporate/data-and-analysis/ucas-teacher-training-statistical-releases.
The number of trainees starting School Direct (Salaried) and School Direct (Fee) courses in England is published in the annual ITT Census. The latest publication relates to academic year 2017/18. Data in the academic years from 2013/14 are available in previous ITT Census publications. These are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-teacher-training.
The number of final year trainees on School Direct (Salaried) and School Direct (Fee) courses, the number of trainees awarded Qualified Teacher Status, and the number of trainees employed in a teaching post within six months of qualifying, is published in the annual ITT Performance Profiles publication. The latest available data relates to academic year 2015/16, and a time series to academic year 2012/13 is included in Table 5a of the Main Tables, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-teacher-training.
Asked by: Rushanara Ali (Labour - Bethnal Green and Bow)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what data his Department holds on the number of children missing from education in (a) England and (b) by local authority area; and what steps his Department is taking to improve the quality of data held on such children.
Answered by Nick Gibb
It is the responsibility of local authorities (LA) to make arrangements to establish, as far as possible, the identities of children of compulsory school age in their area who are not registered as pupils at a school and who are not otherwise receiving suitable education.
In September 2016, the Department amended the Education (Pupil Registration) (England) Regulations 2006, to include further duties on schools to improve the information they provide to LAs when a child is removed from their roll, to help LAs to carry out these duties. We have a commitment to review the impact of these amendments by September 2019.
Further information can be found in the statutory guidance on Children Missing Education: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/children-missing-education.
Asked by: Rushanara Ali (Labour - Bethnal Green and Bow)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many state school teachers in England do not have Qualified Teacher Status.
Answered by Nick Gibb
There are 28,000 (headcount) and 24,000 (full-time equivalent) teachers without Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and 475,900 (headcount) and 433,200 (full-time equivalent) with QTS in service in state funded schools in England, November 2016. The source for this information is the annual School Workforce Census.
This information is publicly available in table 3a at the following web link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2016.
Asked by: Rushanara Ali (Labour - Bethnal Green and Bow)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people have applied to take PGCE courses in England in each year since 2010.
Answered by Nick Gibb
Data on the number of applicants to Initial Teacher Training (ITT) is collected by theUniversities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), who administrate applications to ITT and publish data about applications and acceptances. Published applicant and application statistics from UCAS (including but not limited to those taking PGCEs) are available on the UCAS teacher training releases webpage: https://www.ucas.com/corporate/data-and-analysis/ucas-teacher-training-releases.
Information on the total numbers starting undergraduate and postgraduate initial teacher training (including but not limited to those taking PGCEs) in each year since 2010 is published as part of the ITT Census statistics: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-teacher-training.
Information showing the number of undergraduate and postgraduate students enrolled to study for PGCEs in Higher Education Institutions in each year since 2012/13 is published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/11-01-2018/sfr247-higher-education-student-statistics/numbers.