Description
This document describes the data included in the ‘Postgraduate initial teacher training targets’ Official Statistics release's underlying data files. The publication itself should be referenced alongside this data, as it provides more detailed information on the methodology to produce the targets.
The Teacher Workforce Model is a national, stocks and flows model. From 2021/22 onward, the department’s annual postgraduate initial teacher training (PGITT) targets have been set using analysis from the Teacher Workforce Model (TWM). This publication reports the PGITT targets for the 2024/25 academic year.
Coverage
The data used in this publication covers postgraduate initial teacher training targets for England for the 2024/25 academic year, and provides the previous, 2022/23 and 2021/22 targets, to enable comparisons to be made between them.
The TWM covers all state-funded primary (including maintained nurseries attached to schools) and secondary schools (including post-16 provision within such schools), academies, and free schools[1] in England.
[1] Whilst special schools, pupil referral units, early years, independent schools, and further education/sixth-form colleges are considered as being out of scope of the TWM, the PGITT targets set using the model does make an indirect provision for teachers required in those sectors.
Targets have been rounded to the nearest 5.
The following symbols have been used within the publication and are defined below:
| Symbol | Definition |
| x | Not available |
The need to suppress data is not applicable, nor does any data enable individuals to be accurately identified.