Academic year 2025/26

Postgraduate initial teacher training targets

Data guidance

Published 29 April 2025

Description

Time series data for PGITT recruitment targets.

Coverage

National.

File formats and conventions

csv

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.

2025-26 PGITT targets

• Filename: pgitt_targets_202526_timeseries.csv
• Geographic levels: National
• Time period: 2021/22 to 2025/26
• Content:
  PGITT recruitment targets time series data.

Variable names and descriptions

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name	Variable description
difference_to_previous_year	Difference to previous year
percentage_difference_to_previous_year	Percentage difference to previous year
pgitt_trainee_target	Postgraduate initial teacher training (PGITT) trainee target
subject	ITT subject

Footnotes

1. Targets have been rounded to the nearest 5.
2. ‘Others’ includes child development, citizenship, law, media studies, other social studies, other technology, politics, psychology, sociology, and social sciences among others.