Table 3 - Trainee qualified teacher status and employment outcomes by training route and characteristics
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This national level table contains the QTS and employment outcomes of postgraduate and undergraduate ITT trainees by route and characteristics. The data in this table covers 2017/18 to 2023/24, which is provisional, while all other years are revised.
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Data set details
- Theme
- Teachers and school workforce
- Publication
- Initial teacher training performance profiles
- Release
- Academic year 2023/24
- Release type
- Number of rows
- 9,933
- Geographic levels
- National
- Indicators
- Number of trainees
- Percentage of trainees
- Filters
- Characteristics
- Employment status
- Institution type
- Time period
- 2017/18 to 2023/24
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| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | post_reform_route | institution_type | course_level_recoded | qts_status | employment_status | breakdown_topic | breakdown | trainee_number | trainee_percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201718 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | PG fee-funded | HEI | Postgraduate | Achieved QTS | Teaching in a State-Funded School (of those achieved QTS) | Total | Total | 12377 | 77 |
| 201718 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | PG fee-funded | HEI | Postgraduate | Achieved QTS | Teaching in a State-Funded School (of those achieved QTS) | Age | Under 25 | 6099 | 78 |
| 201718 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | PG fee-funded | HEI | Postgraduate | Achieved QTS | Teaching in a State-Funded School (of those achieved QTS) | Age | 25 and over | 6278 | 75 |
| 201718 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | PG fee-funded | HEI | Postgraduate | Achieved QTS | Teaching in a State-Funded School (of those achieved QTS) | Sex | Male | 3316 | 71 |
| 201718 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | PG fee-funded | HEI | Postgraduate | Achieved QTS | Teaching in a State-Funded School (of those achieved QTS) | Sex | Female | 9059 | 79 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| breakdown | Characteristics |
| employment_status | Employment status |
| institution_type | Institution type |
| post_reform_route | Training route |
| qts_status | QTS status |
Footnotes
- Percentage of those who achieved QTS teaching in a state-funded school is the percentage of trainees who achieved QTS who are employed in a state-funded school in England within 16 months of the academic year end. For 2023/24, employment rate figures are provisional (uplifted), all prior years are revised.
- High Potential ITT was formerly reported as Teach First.
- The postgraduate teaching apprenticeship (PGTA) was a new route introduced in 2018/19.
- Trainees who did not achieve QTS are those who ended their training during the year and either left the course before the end (excluding those who left the course within 90 days of the start) or did not meet the standards.
- Teaching in a state-funded school is the number of trainees registered as employed in a state-funded school in England within 16 months of the academic year end. For 2023/24, figures are provisional (uplifted), previous years are revised. Due to rounding in the uplift process, the sum of constituent parts may differ from the reported total. See methodology for further details.
- Only trainees who have course outcomes are included, see methodology for further details.
- This publication was produced using data extracted from the Register Trainee Teachers service from the academic year of 2021/22 onwards. This is a move from the previous data source, DTTP (Database of Teacher Training Providers). See methodology for further details.
- Warning: percentages have been rounded and therefore may not sum to 100%.
- Trainees' age is as recorded on the last day of the academic year (31st July) in which they had course outcomes.
- From 2021/22, trainees who chose not to provide data on sex have been included in an 'Unknown' category. Prior to this they were included in 'Other'.
- Degree classes relate to postgraduate ITT trainees only. From 2021/22, where possible, the first UK degree awarded has been selected. If no UK degree was awarded, the first non-UK degree awarded was selected. Those with non-UK degrees or degree-equivalent qualifications are assigned UK style classifications where known.
- 'Upper second' degree class includes undivided second degree class.
- Other degree class includes third class honours degrees, and ‘ordinary’ or ‘general’ degrees awarded after a non-honours course, and degrees awarded after a non-honours course that was not available to be classified. It also includes other categories from non-UK degrees.
- Other ethnicity includes the Arab ethnic background.
- Data from 2019/20 onwards have been revised to include "self-funded" trainees, who had been excluded from historic releases of these statistics. These are trainees where the accredited provider has indicated they are not eligible for UK funding. Numbers and percentages do not match historic publications. Care should be taken when comparing numbers of trainees from before 2019/20. See methodology for further detail.
- Other sex is used where trainees have a legal sex other than male or female as recognised by another country.
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