State Education: Teachers

(asked on 12th December 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers in state schools in England did not have qualified teacher status in each year between 2010 and 2021.


Answered by
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Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 15th December 2022

Qualified teacher status (QTS) is considered desirable for teachers in the majority of schools in England. In some schools, including academies, free schools and independent schools, QTS is not a legal requirement. Academies have a fundamental freedom to employ people who do not have QTS.

The majority of teachers in all schools, including academies, have QTS and have undertaken initial teacher training. In the 2021/22 academic year, the latest data available, 12,551 full time equivalent (FTE) teachers did not have QTS, equivalent to 2.7% of teachers. This has fallen from 14,028 FTE teachers, equivalent to 3.2%, in the 2010/11 academic year. Teachers may be undertaking further qualifications during their employment to gain QTS.

Information on the school workforce in England is published in the annual ‘School Workforce in England’ national statistics release at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england.

The number and proportion of teachers that did and did not have QTS in each English Local Authority in each year between 2010 and 2021 is available at: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/data-tables/permalink/ff30c318-6321-4173-8669-08dad51ca1cc.

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