Teachers: Migrant Workers

(asked on 21st February 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers in UK schools are EU nationals.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 28th February 2020

The Migration Advisory Committee’s report, ‘A full review of the Shortage Occupation List’, published in May 2019, estimated that around 4% of secondary school teachers and around 2% of primary and nursery school teachers were born in the European Economic Area (EEA) (excluding UK).

The Department publishes data on the nationality of initial teacher training (ITT) trainees, which is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2019-to-2020.

In 2019-20, there were 28,859 postgraduate new entrants to ITT whose nationality was known, which was 98% of all postgraduate new entrants. Of these, 5% (1,484) were EEA nationals (excluding UK).

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