Data set from Initial Teacher Training Census

2) Postgraduate ITT new entrants and targets time series by subject

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Published 3 December 2020

Last updated 3 December 2020

This national level table contains the number of new entrants to ITT by subject for postgraduates and undergraduates and performance against recruitment targets for 2015/16 to 2020/21.

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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
  • Percentage of target reached
  • Postgraduate and undergraduate total
• Filters:
  • Subject
• Time period: 2015/16 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	grand_tot	TSM_target	TSM_perc
201516	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Art & Design	506	:	:	794	64
201516	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Biology	1058	:	:	1178	90
201516	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Business Studies	200	:	:	313	64
201516	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Chemistry	985	:	:	1053	94
201516	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Computing	504	:	:	723	70

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 6 variables

Variable name	Variable description
grand_tot	Postgraduate and undergraduate total
pg_total	Postgraduate total
subject_recoded	Subject
TSM_perc	Percentage of target reached
TSM_target	Central postgraduate target

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Footnotes

1. Design & Technology: includes food technology and engineering.
2. Business Studies: includes economics from 2019/20
3. Figures for 2020/21 are provisional and are subject to change. Figures for 2019/20 have been revised.
4. Troops to Teachers are excluded from all figures.
5. Other subject: here includes a different mix of subjects to the main targets by subject table, this is for consistency with historic teacher supply model groupings; Other includes drama from 2014/15 and citizenship from 2015/16, and languages contains classics
6. 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.
7. Data was extracted on 13 November 2020.
8. Subject: The subject given here is ITT subject and may not be the same as the subject of the undergraduate degree held.
9. 2020/21: postgraduate numbers include forecast trainees.
10. 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.
11. Modern Foreign Languages: here includes classics.

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