Teachers: Qualifications
(asked on 8th October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to table 7.3 of his Department's September 2018 publication Analysis of teacher supply, retention, and mobility, whether his Department holds information on (a) how many teachers gained qualified teacher status in each region of England in each year from 2010 to 2016 and (b) what proportion of those teachers remained in service one year after qualification.
Figures showing the number of final year teacher trainees awarded Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) by the region of their ITT provider in each year from 2013 onwards can be found in the ITT Performance Profiles statistical series, available here:[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-teacher-training.
Information on the proportion of teachers who enter service as a Newly Qualified Teacher (NQT) in the state-funded school sector in England immediately after gaining QTS that remain in service in the following year is available in the online application published alongside the Teachers analysis compendium 4: Analysis of teacher supply, retention and mobility publication as referenced in the question, with figures at regional level extracted from the application provided in the table below.
Table 1 Proportion of teachers who entered service as an NQT immediately after gaining QTS that are still in service one year later, by year of gaining QTS and region, 2010 – 2016 inclusive[2]
Region | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
North East | 88% | 83% | 86% | 84% | 86% | 85% | 84% |
North West | 83% | 84% | 85% | 85% | 83% | 85% | 85% |
Yorkshire & Humber | 85% | 88% | 85% | 87% | 86% | 85% | 85% |
East Midlands | 87% | 89% | 90% | 89% | 88% | 89% | 88% |
West Midlands | 85% | 89% | 87% | 89% | 87% | 87% | 84% |
East of England | 86% | 91% | 89% | 90% | 88% | 88% | 87% |
Inner London | 81% | 85% | 86% | 86% | 84% | 82% | 82% |
Outer London | 86% | 88% | 87% | 85% | 87% | 85% | 84% |
South East | 87% | 89% | 87% | 87% | 86% | 86% | 85% |
South West | 83% | 87% | 87% | 88% | 87% | 87% | 84% |
[1] Data for 2013/14 can be calculated from Table 6a of the provider-level tables for 2013/14. Data for the proportion of those awarded QTS in 2014/15 are in Figure 5 of the main text for 2014/15. Data for 2015/16 are in Figure 8 of the main text for 2015/16. Data for 2016/17 are in Table 9 of the provider-level tables for 2016/17.
[2] Note some trainees gaining QTS will not immediately enter service as an NQT in the state-funded sector in England but may enter the state-funded school sector at a later date.