Teachers: Qualifications
(asked on 5th November 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of teaching staff are unqualified in (a) maintained state, (b) academy and (c) free schools.
The following table provides the full-time equivalent (FTE) teacher numbers and proportion of unqualified teachers in service in (a) maintained state schools, (b) academies, (c) free schools and England, as at November 2017.
Full-time equivalent (FTE) teacher numbers and proportion of unqualified[1] teachers in service in maintained state schools, academies, and free schools and England, November 2017 | |||
| FTE Unqualified Teachers (000’s) | FTE Qualified and Unqualified Teachers (000’s) | FTE Unqualified (%) |
Maintained State Schools[2] | 8.6 | 235.9 | 3.6 |
Academies | 11.9 | 210.0 | 5.7 |
Free Schools | 0.6 | 6.0 | 9.2 |
Total All Schools | 21.0 | 451.9 | 4.7 |
Source: School Workforce Census
The numbers are publicly available in table 3a within the publication ‘School Workforce in England, November 2017’, available at the following web link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/school-workforce-in-england-november-2017.
[1] An unqualified teacher in the LA maintained sector is either a trainee working towards QTS; an overseas trained teacher who has not exceeded the four years they are allowed to teach without having QTS; or an instructor who has a particular skill who can be employed for so long as a qualified teacher is not available.
[2] Includes Centrally Employed.