Erasmus+ Programme
(asked on 24th April 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many school (a) teachers and (b) pupils have benefited from Erasmus programmes in each of the last five years.
Statistics about the number of individuals participating in international mobilities through the Erasmus+ programme are available on the European Commission website: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/about/statistics_en.
Data are available covering the 2014, 2015 and 2016 call years are as below:
Year | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
Numbers of school staff mobilities outgoing from the UK | 1,067 | 1,147 | 1,393 |
Number of teachers in England | 4,549,000 | 4,569,000 | 4,573,000 |
% of school staff participating in international mobilities | 0.02% | 0.03% | 0.03% |
Figures taken from the School Workforce in England, 2014, 2015, 2016 https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-workforce.
These will include teachers but also wider school staff.
Numbers of school pupils participating in international mobilities through the Erasmus+ programme are not available.
These statistics give numbers of individuals who have travelled on international mobilities but will not reflect the full number of teachers and pupils who will have otherwise benefited from the Erasmus+ programme, for example through strategic partnerships and cooperative projects. It is not possible to quantify the total numbers of school staff and pupils who will have benefited.
Comparing the number of school staff mobilities to the number of teachers in England gives a sense of the proportion that benefit from the Erasmus+ programme.
These figures give the number of teachers working in state-funded schools in England only. They do not include the number of teachers working at other types of schools in the UK eg independent schools, who are also eligible to participate in the Erasmus+ programme.