Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the change was in the rate of acceptances onto teacher training courses in (a) Sheffield, (b) Yorkshire and (c) the UK from 2015-16 to 2016-17.

The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) administer applications to initial teacher training (ITT) and publish data about applications and acceptances. This can be found at: https://www.ucas.com/corporate/data-and-analysis/ucas-teacher-training-releases.

The Department’s ITT Census provides the number of new entrants who started in postgraduate initial teacher training for academic years 2015/16 and 2016/17. Figures for all of the requested areas are contained in the table below:

Source: ITT Census

• Figures for 2016/17 are provisional and subject to change
• Figures exclude forecasted trainees
• Location of ITT provider does not necessarily reflect the location of the trainee
• Identification of Sheffield ITT providers based on the registered postcode of the provider.