Academic year 2024/25

Initial Teacher Training Census

Data guidance

Published 5 December 2024

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Data files

All data files associated with this releases are listed below with guidance on their content. To download any of these files, please visit our data catalogue.

Table 1 - ITT new entrants, recruitment targets and trainee characteristics by subject

Filename: table_1_subject_characteristics.csv
Geographic levels: National
Time period: 2019/20 to 2024/25
Content: This national level table contains the number of postgraduate and undergraduate new entrants to ITT by subject, as well as performance against ITT recruitment targets and trainee characteristics for postgraduates. The data in this table covers 2019/20(revised), 2020/21 (revised), 2021/22 (revised), 2022/23 (revised), 2023/24 (revised) and 2024/25 (provisional).

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
breakdown	Characteristics
itt_subject	ITT subject
trainee_number	Number of trainees
trainee_percentage	Percentage of trainees

Footnotes

EBacc Subjects are English, Mathematics, Modern Foreign Languages, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, History, Geography, Computing and Classics.
STEM Subjects are Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Mathematics and Physics.
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.
Others includes media and communication studies, social studies, citizenship and psychology.
Percentages have been rounded and therefore may not sum to 100%.
Business studies: includes economics
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/2024-25.
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.
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'.
Data from 2021/22 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.
Proportions exclude trainees where information was not supplied, or where characteristics/information were reported as ‘unknown’.
Data was extracted on 19 November 2024.
Numbers for entrants are slightly decreased for 2024/25. This is because records for approximately 100 trainees from a provider were not submitted in time for inclusion in these statistics. We intend to update the figures to include these trainees in an amendment in early 2025.

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Table 2 - ITT new entrants and targets by subject time series

Filename: table_2_subjects_target_time_series.csv
Geographic levels: National
Time period: 2015/16 to 2024/25
Content: 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 2024/25 (provisional for 2024/25 and revised for previous years).

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
breakdown	ITT Level
itt_subject	ITT subject
trainee_number	Number of trainees
trainee_percentage	Percentage of trainees

Footnotes

Others includes media and communication studies, social studies, citizenship and psychology.
Percentages have been rounded and therefore may not sum to 100%.
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/2024-25.
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.
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.
Data from 2021/22 does not contain forecast trainees, this is due to a change in data collection methodology.
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.
Data was extracted on 19 November 2024.
Numbers for entrants are slightly decreased for 2024/25. This is because records for approximately 100 trainees from a provider were not submitted in time for inclusion in these statistics. We intend to update the figures to include these trainees in an amendment in early 2025.

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Table 3 - ITT new entrants by subject and training route

Filename: table_3_subject_by_route_v2.csv
Geographic levels: National
Time period: 2019/20 to 2024/25
Content: This national level table contains the number of both postgraduate and undergraduate new entrants on each ITT route by subject. The data in this table covers 2019/20(revised), 2020/21 (revised), 2021/22 (revised), 2022/23 (revised), 2023/24 (revised) and 2024/25 (provisional).

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
breakdown	ITT Route
itt_subject	ITT subject
trainee_number	Number of trainees
trainee_percentage	Percentage of trainees

Footnotes

EBacc Subjects are English, Mathematics, Modern Foreign Languages, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, History, Geography, Computing and Classics.
STEM Subjects are Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Mathematics and Physics.
Others includes media and communication studies, social studies, citizenship and psychology.
Percentages have been rounded and therefore may not sum to 100%.
Business studies: includes economics
Design & Technology: includes food technology and engineering.
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.
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.
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.
Schools direct salaried: includes salaried programmes i.e. Future Teaching Scholars Programme
Proportions exclude trainees where information was not supplied, or where characteristics/information were reported as ‘unknown’.
Data was extracted on 19 November 2024.
Numbers for entrants are slightly decreased for 2024/25. This is because records for approximately 100 trainees from a provider were not submitted in time for inclusion in these statistics. We intend to update the figures to include these trainees in an amendment in early 2025.

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Table 5 - ITT new entrants by training route and trainee characteristics

Filename: table_5_route_characteristics.csv
Geographic levels: National
Time period: 2019/20 to 2024/25
Content: This national level table contains the number of both postgraduate and undergraduate new entrants for each ITT route by trainee characteristic (eg. age, gender, etc.). The data in this table covers 2019/20 (revised), 2020/21 (revised), 2021/22 (revised), 2022/23 (revised), 2023/24 (revised) and 2024/25 (provisional).

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

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 19 November 2024.
Numbers for entrants are slightly decreased for 2024/25. This is because records for approximately 100 trainees from a provider were not submitted in time for inclusion in these statistics. We intend to update the figures to include these trainees in an amendment in early 2025.

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Table 6 - Postgraduate ITT new entrants by ethnic background

Filename: table_6_route_ethnicity.csv
Geographic levels: National
Time period: 2019/20 to 2024/25
Content: 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 (revised), 2024/25 (provisional).

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
ethnic_major	Major Ethnicity
ethnic_minor	Minor Ethnicity
trainee_number	Number of trainees
trainee_percentage	Percentage of trainees

Footnotes

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.
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.
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 19 November 2024.
Numbers for entrants are slightly decreased for 2024/25. This is because records for approximately 100 trainees from a provider were not submitted in time for inclusion in these statistics. We intend to update the figures to include these trainees in an amendment in early 2025.

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Table 7 - ITT new entrants by course level and trainee characteristics time series

Filename: table_7_route_characteristic_time_series.csv
Geographic levels: National
Time period: 2015/16 to 2024/25
Content: This national level table contains the number of postgraduate and undergraduate new entrants to ITT by trainee characteristics (eg. age, gender, etc.) for 2015/16 to 2024/25 (provisional for 2024/25 and revised for previous years).

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
breakdown	Characteristics
itt_level	ITT level
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'.
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.
Degree Class: 2:1 includes undivided 2nd.
Total with known degree: excludes trainees whose degree classes are unknown, therefore please consider the impact of the number of unknowns when considering data trends.
Other degree class: includes international degrees which have different grading classes, degree classes below 2:2, and other. It excludes trainees whose degrees classed as not known or not applicable.
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.
Prior to 2017/18, trainees who did not identify as Male or Female were reported as "Female". From 2017/18 onwards, they are not included as "Female".
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 19 November 2024.
Numbers for entrants are slightly decreased for 2024/25. This is because records for approximately 100 trainees from a provider were not submitted in time for inclusion in these statistics. We intend to update the figures to include these trainees in an amendment in early 2025.

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Table 8 - ITT new entrants by region and training route

Filename: table_8_route_region_v2.csv
Geographic levels: National; Regional
Time period: 2019/20 to 2024/25
Content: This regional level table contains the number of both postgraduate and undergraduate new entrants for each ITT route by geographic region. The data in this table covers 2019/20 (revised), 2020/21 (revised), 2021/22 (revised), 2022/23 (revised) and 2023/24 (revised), 2024/25 (provisional).

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
breakdown	ITT route
trainee_number	Number of trainees
trainee_percentage	Percentage of trainees

Footnotes

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.
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.
Government Office Region: Region is determined by the location of the provider, which is not necessarily where the trainee is located.
Schools direct salaried: includes salaried programmes i.e. Future Teaching Scholars Programme
Due to a change in how the provider is reported for High Potential ITT trainees, from 2021/22, all trainees are now located in London.
Data was extracted on 19 November 2024.
Numbers for entrants in the East Midlands have been suppressed for 2024/25. This is because records for approximately 100 trainees from a provider located in the East Midlands were not submitted in time for inclusion in these statistics. We intend to update the figures to include these trainees in an amendment in early 2025.

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Table 9 - Early Years ITT new entrants by training route and trainee characteristics

Filename: table_9_early_years_itt_v2.csv
Geographic levels: National
Time period: 2019/20 to 2024/25
Content: This national level table contains the number of both postgraduate and undergraduate new entrants to Early Years ITT courses by route and trainee characteristics (eg. age, gender, etc.). The data in this table covers 2019/20 (revised), 2020/21 (revised), 2021/22 (revised), 2022/23 (revised) and 2023/24 (revised), 2024/25 (provisional).

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
breakdown	Characteristics
itt_route	ITT route
trainee_number	Number of trainees
trainee_percentage	Percentage of trainees

Footnotes

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'.
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.
Trainee characteristics for individual Early Years ITT routes are not reported due to low numbers.
Other ethnicity includes Arab and Other ethnic background.
Data was extracted on 19 November 2024.
Numbers for entrants are slightly decreased for 2024/25. This is because records for approximately 100 trainees from a provider were not submitted in time for inclusion in these statistics. We intend to update the figures to include these trainees in an amendment in early 2025.

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Table 10 - ITT candidates by subject and candidate characteristics

Filename: table_10_candidates_subject_by_characteristics.csv
Geographic levels: National
Time period: 2022/23 to 2024/25
Content: This national level table contains the number of postgraduate candidates applying to ITT by subject and candidate characteristics. The data in this table covers courses that start in 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
age_grouping	Age group
ethnicity_major	Ethnic group
in_cycle_acceptance_rate	In-cycle acceptance rate
in_cycle_accepted_candidates	In-cycle accepted candidates
itt_subject	ITT subject
nationality_group	Nationality
num_accepted	Total accepted candidates
num_candidates	Total candidates
perc_accepted_candidates_with_characteristic	Percentage of accepted candidates
sex	Sex

Footnotes

Data was extracted 25 October 2024.
High Potential ITT (HPITT) route and undergraduate routes are not included in this data.
Total candidates: the total number of candidates that applied to postgraduate ITT for courses that start in the given time period.
Total accepted candidates: the total number of candidates who have accepted an offer to start ITT in the given cycle. This includes candidates who deferred an offer from a previous cycle. Withdrawn applications and deferrals into the next cycle have been excluded.
Subject-level candidate totals will not sum to the total candidate number due to duplication caused by candidates applying for multiple subjects.
EBacc Subjects are English, Mathematics, Modern Foreign Languages, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, History, Geography, Computing and Classics.
STEM Subjects are Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Mathematics and Physics.
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.
The sum of categories for a characteristic may not match the total due to some candidates not providing characteristics information.
In-cycle acceptance rate: in-cycle accepted candidates / total candidates.
The in-cycle acceptance total and the acceptance rate are not shown in cases where candidate numbers are fewer than 30. Where small numbers are present, the acceptance rate can be volatile and potentially misleading.
Others includes media and communication studies, social studies, citizenship and psychology.

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Table 11 - ITT candidates by subject and ITT route

Filename: table_11_candidates_subject_by_route.csv
Geographic levels: National
Time period: 2022/23 to 2024/25
Content: This national level table contains the number of postgraduate candidates applying to ITT by subject and ITT route. The data in this table covers courses that start in 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
in_cycle_acceptance_rate	In-cycle acceptance rate
in_cycle_accepted_candidates	In-cycle accepted candidates
itt_program_type	ITT program type
itt_route	ITT route
itt_subject	ITT subject
num_accepted	Total accepted candidates
num_candidates	Total candidates
perc_accepted_candidates_on_route	Percentage of accepted candidates on ITT route

Footnotes

Data was extracted 25 October 2024.
High Potential ITT (HPITT) route and undergraduate routes are not included in this data.
Total candidates: the total number of candidates that applied to postgraduate ITT for courses that start in the given time period.
Total accepted candidates: the total number of candidates who have accepted an offer to start ITT in the given cycle. This includes candidates who deferred an offer from a previous cycle. Withdrawn applications and deferrals into the next cycle have been excluded.
Subject-level candidate totals will not sum to the total candidate number due to duplication caused by candidates applying for multiple subjects.
STEM Subjects are Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Mathematics and Physics.
In-cycle acceptance rate: in-cycle accepted candidates / total candidates.
The in-cycle acceptance total and the acceptance rate are not shown in cases where candidate numbers are fewer than 30. Where small numbers are present, the acceptance rate can be volatile and potentially misleading.

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