Table 2 - ITT new entrants and targets by subject time series
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This national level table contains the number of new entrants to ITT by subject for postgraduates and undergraduates and performance against ITT recruitment targets for 2015/16 to 2025/26 (provisional for 2025/26 and revised for previous years).
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Data set details
- Theme
- Teachers and school workforce
- Publication
- Initial Teacher Training Census
- Release
- Academic year 2025/26
- Release type
- Number of rows
- 1,360
- Geographic levels
- National
- Indicators
- Number of trainees
- Percentage of trainees
- Filters
- ITT Level
- ITT subject
- Previous Publication Inclusion
- Time period
- 2015/16 to 2025/26
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| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | inclusion_status | itt_subject | breakdown_topic | breakdown | trainee_number | trainee_percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201516 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Original | Art & Design | Entrants | Total | z | z |
| 201516 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Original | Art & Design | Entrants | Postgraduates | 506 | z |
| 201516 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Original | Art & Design | Entrants | Undergraduates | z | z |
| 201516 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Original | Art & Design | Target | ITT Recruitment | 794 | 64 |
| 201516 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Original | Biology | Entrants | Total | z | z |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| breakdown | ITT Level |
| inclusion_status | Previous Publication Inclusion |
| itt_subject | ITT subject |
| trainee_number | Number of trainees |
| trainee_percentage | Percentage of trainees |
Footnotes
- Others includes media and communication studies, social studies, citizenship and psychology.
- Percentages have been rounded and therefore may not sum to 100%
- Design & Technology: includes food technology and engineering.
- Physical Education: includes dance.
- Business Studies: includes economics from 2019/20
- The Teacher Workforce Model (TWM) is used by DfE to set postgraduate ITT targets https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/postgraduate-initial-teacher-training-targets/2025-26.
- Data was extracted on 10 November 2025
- Subject: The subject given here is ITT subject and may not be the same as the subject of the undergraduate degree held.
- Figures for 2025/26 are provisional and are subject to change. Figures for 2024/25 and all previous years have been revised.
- Troops to Teachers are excluded from all figures prior to 2021/22.
- Data from 2021/22 does not contain forecast trainees, this is due to a change in data collection methodology.
- Modern Foreign Languages: here includes classics.
- Other subject: here includes a different mix of subjects to the main targets by subject table, this is for consistency with historic teacher supply model groupings; Other includes Drama from 2014/15 and Citizenship from 2015/16.
- Undergraduate: The majority of undergraduate provision is offered by higher education institutions.
- Proportions exclude trainees where information was not supplied, or where characteristics/information were reported as ‘unknown’.
- Primary: Prior to 2018/19, a small number of Primary trainees on subject specialist courses were reported against their subject specialism and were included in Total Secondary. From 2018/19, they are reported as Primary.
- Inclusion status refers to self-funded trainees, who were excluded from numbers of trainees and recruitment targets prior to 2025/26. For academic years 2019/20 to 2024/25 these trainees are presented as "Previously excluded". For academic year 2025/26 onwards these trainees are included in targets and "Original" numbers. Percentage of ITT recruitment target refers to "Original" postgraduates in every case. Due to a change in data source, numbers of self-funded trainees were not available prior to 2019/20 and care must be taken with comparisons. For more detail see methodology section.
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