Teachers: Training

(asked on 3rd November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many places were distributed in the initial allocations for initial teacher training trainees to School Direct and HE providers in (a) 2011-12, (b) 2012-13, (c) 2013-14, (d) 2014-15 and (e) 2015-16; and what the target number of trainees estimated by the National College of Teaching and Leadership, the National College for School Leadership and the Teaching Agency was in each of those years.


Answered by
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David Laws
This question was answered on 10th November 2014

The data for initial teacher training (ITT) allocations for School Direct and HE providers over the last 5 years is shown in the table below:

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

2014/15

2015/16

HE providers

28,669

28,841

26,790

23,095

22,224

School Direct

0

772

9,586

15,254

17,609

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