Design and Technology: Teachers

(asked on 5th July 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he is taking steps to help increase the number of PGCE courses available for prospective design technology teachers; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
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Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 13th July 2018

Initial Teacher Training (ITT) courses in Design and Technology are available at schools and universities in all regions in England. For the 2018/19 academic year, there are 412 postgraduate ITT courses in Design and Technology, which is 13 more courses than in 2017/18.

For Design and Technology courses running in 2017/18 and 2018/19 we have allowed schools and universities to recruit as many trainees as they wish. They have this same flexibility when recruiting for the 2019/20 academic year.

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