Data collection
The initial teacher training performance profiles are collected each year for trainees with ITT course outcomes in a given academic year. For 2022/23, trainees are included if they:
- were awarded Qualified Teacher Status (QTS),
- completed their course but were unsuccessful and not awarded QTS,
- or left the course after at least 90 days of starting and before the course end
between 1st August 2022 and 31st July 2023 (inclusive).
For the academic year 2022/23, we extracted data for 229 providers. This consisted of 158 SCITTs, and 71 HEIs. All data were reviewed, confirmed and signed-off by a designated person at each provider, however 4 providers closed this year and were unable to officially sign-off their data (although they informally confirmed to DfE it was correct to the best of their knowledge).
This statistical release presents trainee outcomes and provisional employment data for 2022/23 as well as revised employment data for 2021/22.
Quality assurance
Data for the ITT performance profiles were completed, reviewed and signed-off by providers. The data collection and publication team within DfE carried out additional quality checks and data validations throughout the data entry process. After data were extracted on 11th June 2023 (excluding employment data which was extracted at a later date), a quality assurance process was undertaken by the publication production team. This process included detailed quality checks across the dataset.
This quality assurance process identified a small number of issues. These, along with the solutions that have been implemented, are outlined below.
- There were 420 trainees that were excluded as they have QTS award dates in August 2023 (outside of scope mentioned above). We are currently liaising with providers with regards to the best approach to trainees with August award dates.
- This year we have seen a continued low response rate for the return of previous degree class (6% of postgraduates had unknown degree class compared to 3% in 2020/21). We do not feel this compromises the quality of the degree class information published in tables 1, 3, 7 or 8, but it impacts our ability to identify trainees who were eligible for a bursary in 2022/23. Therefore, the decision has been taken not to publish bursary eligibility data for this release. This will be reviewed for subsequent publications and we will investigate alternative methods for identifying trainees eligible for bursaries going forward.
Measuring Employment
The Department uses internal administrative data sources to estimate how many final year trainees awarded QTS go on to employment in a state-funded school in England. For full details on the methodology for measuring employment, see the publication methodology.
For this publication, we calculate two employment rates:
- A provisional employment rate for final year trainees in the 2022/23 academic year
- A revised employment rate for final year trainees in the 2021/22 academic year
Provisional employment rate: Departmental analysis has found that matching ITT trainee data to school workforce census data from the year following qualification does not fully capture how many trainees go onto employment because some teachers do not start in time to be recorded in that SWC, while others start up to sixteen months after the end of the academic year. We account for these teachers by applying an uplift to the 2022/23 employment figures to estimate a provisional employment rate for 2022/23. The uplift is derived by comparing with data from previous years to determine what proportion of new teachers employed during the year were not included in their first school workforce census but were captured in the following year’s census (the uplift applied for 2022/23 was around 27% of those not captured in the first school workforce census).