Teachers: Veterans
(asked on 18th March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) women and (b) BAME people there are in previous cohorts of the Troops to Teachers programme; and what proportion of people in each such category formed the overall participants.
This question was answered on 23rd March 2015
There are two cohorts of trainees on the Troops to Teachers programme. There are 8 female trainees in the first cohort and 12 in the second cohort. This is just under a quarter (24%) of the total participants across both cohorts.
No trainees have declared themselves as Black, Asian, and minority ethnic (BAME).