Teachers: Recruitment

(asked on 9th September 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many fully qualified teachers who have completed their studies within the last three years in England have not obtained a permanent teaching post.


Answered by
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David Laws
This question was answered on 17th September 2014

In the academic year 2011/12, there were 1,520 people who had received Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) and were still seeking a teaching post within six months of completing their training. Data for the academic year 2012/13 will be published on 23 October.

The table attached gives a breakdown of the total number of trainee teachers who have been awarded QTS and have reported to be seeking a teaching post, and those that were in employment within six months of completion of training.

Further information is published online at:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-performance-profiles-2013-management-data

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