Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the rate of acceptance onto teacher training courses was in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) the UK in (i) 2016-17 and (ii) 2017-18.

The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) administer applications to initial teacher training (ITT) and publish regular statistical releases containing data on applications and acceptances. Statistics on acceptances are available from UCAS, at https://www.ucas.com/corporate/data-and-analysis/ucas-teacher-training-releases.

The Department’s ITT Census provides the number of new entrants who started postgraduate initial teacher training for academic years 2016/17 and 2017/18. Data is not collected or published on ITT courses outside of England. Figures for Coventry, the West Midlands and England are contained in the table below:

Source: ITT Census

All figures have been rounded to the nearest 5.

Figures for 2017/18 are provisional and subject to change.

Figures for 2016/17 are final and based on data from 24 October 2017.

Figures exclude forecasted trainees.

Location of ITT provider does not necessarily reflect the location of the trainee.

Identification of Coventry ITT providers based on the registered postcode of the provider.