Teachers: Training

(asked on 3rd December 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many teachers or trainee teachers received each of the scholarship and bursaries for teacher training courses in each subject in each of the last four years.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 8th December 2015

Initial teacher training (ITT) bursaries of varying amounts are available to eligible trainees, depending on the academic year in which they undertake their ITT, the subject in which they are training to teach and their highest relevant academic award. The amounts and eligible subjects change each year based on assessment of need informed by the targets and past performance.


Scholarships are awarded to those trainees who have gone through an additional selection procedure over and above that of their chosen ITT provider. These were available in 2012/13 in physics, and from 2013/14 in chemistry, computing, maths and physics.


The table below shows a breakdown of the total number of trainees who have received training bursaries and scholarships (where relevant) over the last full four academic years, 2011/12, 2012/13, 20/13/14 and 2014/15.


Table 1: Summary of the number of trainees that received training bursaries or scholarships in academic years 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14 and 2014/15


Academic year

Bursary

Scholarship

Total

2011/12

6348

0

6,348

2012/13

16759

87

16,846

2013/14

17434

201

17,635

2014/15

16359

422

16,781


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