Religion: Education

(asked on 5th July 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the number of suitably qualified people recruited to teach religious education.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 10th July 2018

There are 14,700 religious education (RE) teachers in state-funded secondary schools in England, and the proportion of hours spent teaching RE has remained broadly stable since 2010. The percentage of RE teachers with a specialist post A level qualification in RE is 46.4% - an increase from 45.1% from 2016.

To support recruitment of RE trainee teachers for 2018/19 the Department is continuing to offer a generous bursary of up to £9,000 and has removed restrictions on teacher training places to allow good courses to expand. The Department is also, for the first time, providing support to RE applicants from our specialist recruitment advisors.

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