Teachers: Working Hours

(asked on 22nd June 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what additional funding her Department will make available to increase the number of teaching hours to an average of 900 hours a year in (a) 2017-18, (b) 2018-19, (c) 2019-20, (d) 2020-21 and (e) 2021-22.


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Anne Milton Portrait
Anne Milton
This question was answered on 3rd July 2017

In study programmes for 16 and 17 year old students there is a requirement for a minimum of 540 planned hours per year for a programme to qualify as full time. However, the expectation on providers is to deliver programmes of 600 hours per year and the funding rate is set on that basis. The Department for Education plans to make additional funding available to support the introduction of new technical education routes, T levels. In the March budget we announced that we anticipate the number of programme hours for students on those routes will increase to over 900 a year on average, including the completion of a high quality work placement. We are currently working through the detail of our proposals for implementing the technical education reforms and the actual amounts that will be made available are still to be determined, but will be from the additional resources announced in the March Budget for 16-19 technical education to implement the Sainsbury reforms: the first line in Table 2.1 in the Budget report. See https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/spring-budget-2017-documents.

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