Data set from Initial Teacher Training Census

6) Postgraduate ITT new entrants by ethnic background

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Published 7 December 2023

Last updated 7 December 2023

This national level table contains the number of postgraduate new entrants for each ITT route by ethnic background. The data in this table covers 2019/20 (revised), 2020/21 (revised), 2021/22 (revised), 2022/23 (revised) and 2023/24 (provisional).

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Data set details

• Theme: Teachers and school workforce
• Publication: Initial Teacher Training Census
• Release: Academic year 2023/24
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Postgraduate total new entrants to ITT
  • Postgraduate total new entrants to ITT percentage
• Filters:
  • Ethnic background
  • Ethnic group
• Time period: 2019/20 to 2023/24

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	ethnic_group	ethnic_background	total_postgraduates	total_postgraduates_percentage
201920	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Asian	Bangladeshi	552	2
201920	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Asian	Chinese	114	0
201920	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Asian	Indian	801	3
201920	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Asian	Other Asian background	337	1
201920	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Asian	Pakistani	1036	4

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 4 variables

Variable name	Variable description
ethnic_background	Ethnic background
ethnic_group	Ethnic group
total_postgraduates	Postgraduate total new entrants to ITT
total_postgraduates_percentage	Postgraduate total new entrants to ITT percentage

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Footnotes

1. Data was extracted on 21 November 2023.
2. Figures for 2023/24 are provisional and are subject to change. Figures for 2022/23 and all previous years have been revised.
3. Troops to Teachers are excluded from all figures prior to 2021/22.
4. Warning: percentages have been rounded and therefore may not sum to 100%.
5. The 2022/23 revised and 2023/24 provisional data does not contain forecast trainees, this is due to a change in data collection methodology. 
6. Ethnicity: Data is based on known cases and exclude those where ethnicity is unknown or not declared, therefore please consider the impact of the number of unknowns when considering data trends.
7. Other ethnicity includes Arab and Other ethnic background.
8. Proportions exclude trainees where information was not supplied, or where characteristics/information were reported as ‘unknown’.

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