Data set from Initial Teacher Training Census

1) ITT new entrants, recruitment targets and trainee characteristics by subject

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Published 1 December 2022

Last updated 1 December 2022

This national level table contains the number of postgraduate and undergraduate new entrants to ITT by subject, as well as performance against ITT recruitment targets and trainee characteristics for postgraduates. The data in this table covers 2019/20(revised), 2020/21 (revised), 2021/22 (revised) and 2022/23 (provisional).

Data set details

Theme: Teachers and school workforce
Publication: Initial Teacher Training Census
Release: Academic year 2022/23
Release type
Geographic levels: National
Indicators: Postgraduate total new entrants to ITT
Undergraduate total new entrants to ITT
ITT recruitment target
Filters: ITT subject
Time period: 2019/20 to 2022/23

Data set preview

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data
time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	itt_subject	total_postgraduates	total_undergraduates	itt_recruitment_target	itt_recruitment_target_performance_percentage	male_postgraduates	female_postgraduates	other_sex_postgraduates	known_sex_postgraduates	eea_national_postgraduates	uk_national_postgraduates	other_nationality_postgraduates	total_known_nationality_postgraduates	male_postgraduates_percentage	female_postgraduates_percentage	other_sex_postgraduates_percentage	eea_national_postgraduates_percentage	uk_national_postgraduates_percentage	other_nationality_postgraduates_percentage
201920	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Art & Design	413	0	668	62	64	348	1	413	17	389	7	413	15	84	0	4	94	2
201920	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Biology	1937	9	1192	163	632	1300	5	1937	100	1712	69	1881	33	67	0	5	91	4
201920	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Business Studies	185	0	348	53	97	88	0	185	5	165	15	185	52	48	0	3	89	8
201920	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Chemistry	770	3	1152	67	340	430	0	770	41	655	43	739	44	56	0	6	89	6
201920	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Classics	71	0	28	254	24	46	1	71	13	57	1	71	34	65	1	18	80	1

Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 19 variables
Variable name	Variable description
eea_national_postgraduates	EEA national postgraduates
eea_national_postgraduates_percentage	EEA national postgraduates percentage
female_postgraduates	Female postgraduates
female_postgraduates_percentage	Female postgraduates percentage
itt_recruitment_target	ITT recruitment target

Footnotes

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/2022-23.
The 2021/22 revised and 2022/23 provisional data do not contain forecast trainees, this is due to a change in data collection methodology.
Percentages exclude trainees where information was not supplied, or where characteristics were reported as ‘unknown’.
Data was extracted on 14 November 2022.
Design & Technology: includes food technology and engineering.
Figures for 2022/23 are provisional and are subject to change. Figures for 2021/22 and all previous years have been revised.
Due to a technical issue with the mapping of disability information into Register, disability data for 2022/23 includes a significantly larger proportion of unknowns than past years. As the issue is impacting some disability categories more than others, the decision has been made to publish this data once the issue has been fixed. Disability data is therefore currently unavailable for 2022/23 but available for all other years.
Other: includes media and communication studies, social studies, and psychology.
EEA National: here relates to individuals with a European Union, European Economic Area or included in the single market- this includes Swiss nationality. The UK is not included in these figures.
Warning: percentages have been rounded and therefore may not sum to 100%.
Business studies: includes economics.
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.
Troops to Teachers are excluded from all figures before 2021/22.
Subject: The subject given here is ITT subject and may not be the same as the subject of the undergraduate degree held.
Sex other: Sex was previously reported as gender. This has been updated as it was previously mislabelled. For 2021/22 and 2022/23, trainees who chose not to provide data on sex have been included in an 'unknown' category. Prior to this they were included in 'other'.
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.
Undergraduate: The majority of undergraduate provision is offered by higher education institutions, except for 95 trainees on undergraduate school centred ITT programmes in 2022/23 and 113 trainees in 2021/22.
STEM here includes biology, chemistry, computing, mathematics and physics.
Physical Education: includes dance.

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