Data set from Initial Teacher Training Census

2) ITT new entrants and targets by subject time series

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Published 7 December 2023

Last updated 7 December 2023

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
• 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

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

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
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

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 6 variables

Variable name	Variable description
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

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Footnotes

1. Business Studies: includes economics from 2019/20
2. Design & Technology: includes food technology and engineering.
3. 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.
4. Physical Education: includes dance.
5. Subject: The subject given here is ITT subject and may not be the same as the subject of the undergraduate degree held.
6. Data was extracted on 21 November 2023.
7. Figures for 2023/24 are provisional and are subject to change. Figures for 2022/23 and all previous years have been revised.
8. Troops to Teachers are excluded from all figures prior to 2021/22.
9. Data from 2021/22 does not contain forecast trainees, this is due to a change in data collection methodology. 
10. Warning: percentages have been rounded and therefore may not sum to 100%.
11. Modern Foreign Languages: here includes classics.
12. 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.
13. Undergraduate: The majority of undergraduate provision is offered by higher education institutions.
14. Proportions exclude trainees where information was not supplied, or where characteristics/information were reported as ‘unknown’.
15. 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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