Teachers: Training

(asked on 24th November 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the combined target for postgraduate and undergraduate trainees for initial teacher training was (a) including and (b) excluding Teach First in each year from 2010-11 to 2015-16.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 30th November 2015

Information on subject level targets for Initial Teacher Training (ITT) can be found in Table 1b of the ITT Census 2015/16:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2015-to-2016

There are no targets for the various routes, including the Teach First programme, into ITT.

Prior to 2015/16 there was an aggregated undergraduate and postgraduate target for new entrants to ITT. Recruitment to Teach First was not included in performance against these targets. The 2015/16 target was for postgraduate new entrants only, and for the first time includes recruitment to Teach First.

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