Table 5 - ITT new entrants by training route and trainee characteristics
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This national level table contains the number of both postgraduate and undergraduate new entrants for each ITT route by trainee characteristic. The data in this table covers 2019/20 to 2024/25 (2024/25 is provisional, all previous years are revised).
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Data set details
- Theme
- Teachers and school workforce
- Publication
- Initial Teacher Training Census
- Release
- Academic year 2024/25
- Release type
- Geographic levels
- National
- Indicators
- Number of trainees
- Percentage of trainees
- Filters
- Characteristics
- ITT route
- Institution Type
- Time period
- 2019/20 to 2024/25
Data set preview
| time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | itt_route | institution_type | breakdown_topic | breakdown | trainee_number | trainee_percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 201920 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | PG fee-funded | Higher Education Institution | Total | New Entrants | 17643 | 52 |
| 201920 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | PG fee-funded | Higher Education Institution | Study Pattern | Full Time | 17553 | 99 |
| 201920 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | PG fee-funded | Higher Education Institution | Study Pattern | Part Time | 90 | 1 |
| 201920 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | PG fee-funded | Higher Education Institution | Age | under 25 | 9857 | 56 |
| 201920 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | PG fee-funded | Higher Education Institution | Age | 25 to 29 | 4015 | 23 |
Variables in this data set
| Variable name | Variable description |
|---|---|
| breakdown | Characteristics |
| institution_type | Institution Type |
| itt_route | ITT route |
| trainee_number | Number of trainees |
| trainee_percentage | Percentage of trainees |
Footnotes
- EEA national relates to individuals from within the European Union, European Economic Area or those included in the single market - this includes Swiss nationality. The UK is not included in these figures.
- Percentages have been rounded and therefore may not sum to 100%.
- Figures for 2024/25 are provisional and are subject to change. Figures for 2023/24 and all previous years have been revised.
- Troops to Teachers are excluded from all figures prior to 2021/22.
- Sex other: Sex was previously reported as gender. This has been updated as it was previously mislabelled. 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'.
- Postgraduate Teaching Apprenticeship: The postgraduate teaching apprenticeship (PGTA) was introduced in 2018/19.
- The 2023/24 revised and 2024/25 provisional data does not contain forecast trainees, this is due to a change in data collection methodology.
- Undergraduate: The majority of undergraduate provision is offered by higher education institutions.
- Full time: Includes a small number of trainees on abridged courses. Abridged courses are intensive full-time courses allowing trainees to achieve qualified teacher status in a shorter timeframe, typically two terms.
- Age groups: are based on the ages of new entrants on the day of the census, 10 October 2024. Ages are rounded down to the nearest year, for example, a trainee aged 29.5 is placed in the 25-29 age group.
- Disability Status: Data is based on known cases and exclude those where disability status is unknown, therefore please consider the impact of the number of unknowns when considering data trends.
- 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.
- Mean and median age: ages are calculated by rounding down the trainee age to the nearest year.
- Teach First do not offer a part time training option.
- Schools direct salaried: includes salaried programmes i.e. Future Teaching Scholars Programme
- Other ethnicity includes Arab and Other ethnic background.
- Proportions exclude trainees where information was not supplied, or where characteristics/information were reported as ‘unknown’.
- Data was extracted on 7 January 2025.
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