Department for Education written question – answered at on 14 December 2016.
Royston Smith
Conservative, Southampton, Itchen
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to increase the number of (a) Russell Group graduates and (b) graduates with a first class degree working in primary education in deprived communities.
Nick Gibb
Minister of State (Education)
The Government encourages top graduates to enter teaching by providing high-value or otherwise preferential bursaries to first class degree holders in primary education and in many secondary subjects.
The Government continues to support the growth of Teach First, a two-year teacher training programme recruiting high quality graduates. This includes 21% with first class degrees and 71% from Russell Group universities in 2016/2017, to train in primary and secondary schools in some of the most deprived areas of the country.
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