Teachers: Migrant Workers

(asked on 23rd January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of teachers employed by the state sector are non-UK EU nationals.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 31st January 2020

The Migration Advisory Committee’s report, ‘A full review of the Shortage Occupation List (May 2019)’, estimated that around 4% of secondary school teachers and around 2% of primary and nursery school teachers were born in the EEA (excluding the UK).

The Department publishes data on the nationality of Initial Teacher Training (ITT) trainees. In 2019-20, there were 28,859 postgraduate new entrants to ITT whose nationality was known (98% of all postgraduate new entrants). Of these, 5% (1,484) were EEA nationals (excluding the UK). This is the same proportion as in academic years 2018-19, 2017-18, and 2016-17.

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