2) ITT new entrants and targets by subject time series
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This national level table contains the number of new entrants to ITT by subject for postgraduates and undergraduates and performance against ITT recruitment targets for 2015/16 to 2023/24 (provisional for 2023/24 and revised for previous years).
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Data set details
- Theme
- Teachers and school workforce
- Publication
- Initial Teacher Training Census
- Release
- Academic year 2023/24
- Release type
- Geographic levels
- National
- Indicators
- Postgraduate total new entrants to ITT
- Undergraduate total new entrants to ITT
- Total new entrants to ITT
- Filters
- ITT subject
- Time period
- 2015/16 to 2023/24
Data set preview
time_period | time_identifier | geographic_level | country_code | country_name | itt_subject | total_new_entrants | total_postgraduates | total_undergraduates | itt_recruitment_target | itt_recruitment_target_performance_percentage |
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201516 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Art & Design | x | 506 | x | 794 | 64 |
201516 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Biology | x | 1058 | x | 1178 | 90 |
201516 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Business Studies | x | 200 | x | 313 | 64 |
201516 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Chemistry | x | 985 | x | 1053 | 94 |
201516 | Academic year | National | E92000001 | England | Computing | x | 504 | x | 723 | 70 |
Variables in this data set
Variable name | Variable description |
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itt_recruitment_target | ITT recruitment target |
itt_recruitment_target_performance_percentage | Percentage of ITT recruitment target reached |
itt_subject | ITT subject |
total_new_entrants | Total new entrants to ITT |
total_postgraduates | Postgraduate total new entrants to ITT |
Footnotes
- Business Studies: includes economics from 2019/20
- Design & Technology: includes food technology and engineering.
- 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/2023-24.
- Physical Education: includes dance.
- Subject: The subject given here is ITT subject and may not be the same as the subject of the undergraduate degree held.
- Data was extracted on 21 November 2023.
- Figures for 2023/24 are provisional and are subject to change. Figures for 2022/23 and all previous years have been revised.
- Troops to Teachers are excluded from all figures prior to 2021/22.
- Data from 2021/22 does not contain forecast trainees, this is due to a change in data collection methodology.
- Warning: percentages have been rounded and therefore may not sum to 100%.
- Modern Foreign Languages: here includes classics.
- 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.
- Undergraduate: The majority of undergraduate provision is offered by higher education institutions.
- Proportions exclude trainees where information was not supplied, or where characteristics/information were reported as ‘unknown’.
- 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.
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