Data set from Initial Teacher Training Census

1) Postgraduate ITT new entrants (including forecast new entrants) and targets by subject

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Published 3 December 2020

Last updated 3 December 2020

This national level table contains the number of postgraduate and undergraduate new entrants to ITT by subject, as well as performance against recruitment targets and characteristics for postgraduates. The data in this table covers 2019/20 (revised) and 2020/21 (provisional).

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Data set details

• Theme: Teachers and school workforce
• Publication: Initial Teacher Training Census
• Release: Academic year 2020/21
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Central postgraduate target
  • EEA National
  • EEA National percentage
• Filters:
  • Subject
• Time period: 2019/20 to 2020/21

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	Subject_recoded	pg_total	ug_total	Forecast	pg_tot_for	grand_tot	TSM_Target	per_TSM	pg_gender_m	pg_gender_f	pg_gender_other	pg_EEA_nat	pg_UK_nat	pg_other_nat	pg_known_nat	per_gender_m	per_gender_f	per_gender_other	per_EEA_nat	per_UK_nat	per_other_nat
201920	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Art & Design	413	0	z	z	z	668	62	64	348	1	17	389	7	413	15	84	0	4	94	2
201920	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Biology	1937	9	z	z	z	1192	162	632	1300	5	100	1712	69	1881	33	67	0	5	91	4
201920	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Business Studies	185	0	z	z	z	348	53	97	88	0	5	165	15	185	52	48	0	3	89	8
201920	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Chemistry	770	3	z	z	z	1152	67	340	430	0	41	655	43	739	44	56	0	6	89	6
201920	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Classics	71	0	z	z	z	28	254	24	46	1	13	57	1	71	34	65	1	18	80	1

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 21 variables

Variable name	Variable description
Forecast	Forecast trainees
grand_tot	Total new entrants to ITT
per_EEA_nat	EEA National percentage
per_gender_f	Female percentage
per_gender_m	Male percentage

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Footnotes

1. Design & Technology: includes food technology and engineering.
2. Total Ebacc: EBacc here includes English, mathematics, modern foreign languages, physics, biology, chemistry, history, geography, computing and classics. Trainees on the 'PE with Ebacc' programme are not included.
3. Figures for 2020/21 are provisional and are subject to change. Figures for 2019/20 have been revised.
4. EEA National: here relates to individuals with a European Union, European Economic Area or Swiss nationality, excluding the UK.
5. Other: includes media and communication studies, social studies, and psychology.
6. Gender other: in this year's publication, trainees who are not recorded as male or female have been included in 'Other'.
7. Troops to Teachers are excluded from all figures.
8. Warning: percentages have been rounded and therefore may not sum to 100%.
9. Central postgraduate targets are taken from the teacher supply model https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-teacher-training#teacher-supply-model-and-itt-allocations. The teacher supply model target relates to postgraduates only.
10. Data was extracted on 13 November 2020.
11. Physical Education: includes dance.
12. Business studies: includes economics
13. Subject: The subject given here is ITT subject and may not be the same as the subject of the undergraduate degree held.
14. 2020/21: postgraduate numbers include forecast trainees.
15. 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.

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