Teachers: Training

Department for Education written question – answered at on 23 February 2018.

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Photo of Rushanara Ali Rushanara Ali Labour, Bethnal Green and Bow

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people have applied for the (a) School Direct (Salaried) and (b) School Direct (Non-Salaried) programmes in England in each year since 2014.

Photo of Rushanara Ali Rushanara Ali Labour, Bethnal Green and Bow

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many people have been accepted onto the (a) School Direct (Salaried) and (b) School Direct (Non-Salaried) programme in England in each year since 2014.

Photo of Rushanara Ali Rushanara Ali Labour, Bethnal Green and Bow

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the drop-out rate has been of trainees who start on the School Direct training programme over the last twelve months for which data is available.

Photo of Nick Gibb Nick Gibb Minister of State (Education)

Data on the number of applicants to Initial Teacher Training (ITT) is collected by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), which administers applications to ITT and publishes data about applications and acceptances. Published applicant and application statistics from UCAS are available at: https://www.ucas.com/corporate/data-and-analysis/ucas-teacher-training-statistical-releases.

The number of trainees starting School Direct (Salaried) and School Direct (Fee) courses in England is published in the annual ITT Census. The latest publication relates to academic year 2017/18. Data in the academic years from 2013/14 are available in previous ITT Census publications. These are available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-teacher-training.

The number of final year trainees on School Direct (Salaried) and School Direct (Fee) courses, the number of trainees awarded Qualified Teacher Status, and the number of trainees employed in a teaching post within six months of qualifying, is published in the annual ITT Performance Profiles publication. The latest available data relates to academic year 2015/16, and a time series to academic year 2012/13 is included in Table 5a of the Main Tables, available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-teacher-training.

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