Art and Design: Teachers
(asked on 22nd January 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many art and design teachers there were in (a) England and (b) each Local Education Authority in each year since 2010.
The information requested for (a) is shown in the table below.
Number (headcount) of teachers in state funded secondary schools in England teaching art and design – November 2010 to 2018
Year | Headcount of teachers of art and design |
2010 | 13,200 |
2011 | 13,913 |
2012 | 12,810 |
2013 | 12,654 |
2014 | 12,376 |
2015 | 11,976 |
2016 | 11,957 |
2017 | 11,772 |
2018 | 11,874 |
Information on subjects taught by teachers in state funded secondary schools in England is collected from around 85% of state funded secondary schools through the School Workforce Census. This is then grossed up to provide national estimates.
The published information shows the proportion of teaching hours spent teaching art and design has remained broadly stable between 2010 and 2018. National level estimates show that in 2010, 4.1% of all teaching hours were spent teaching art and design. In 2018, this was 3.8%. All editions of the publication can be found here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-school-workforce.
Information for individual local authorities is not held centrally.