Teachers: Training
(asked on 14th January 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the target was for new entrants on to Religious Education initial teacher training courses in each of the last five years.
The numbers of new entrants to religious education initial teacher training (ITT) courses in England, and the target levels, for each of the last five years are as shown in Table 1 below.
The numbers of people achieving qualified teacher status (QTS) in religious studies in each of the last five years are as shown in Table 2 below.
Table 1: New entrants to Religious Education ITT courses.
Year | Postgraduate ITT new entrants | Postgraduate ITT target | Percentage of the postgraduate target achieved | Undergraduate ITT new entrants |
2011/12 | 463 | 446 | 104% | 15 |
2012/13 | 471 | 439 | 107% | 12 |
2013/14 | 367 | 450 | 82% | 12 |
2014/15 | 386 | 537 | 72% | 8 |
2015/16 | 411 | 650 | 63% | 14 |
Table 2: Final year religious education trainees obtaining QTS awards.
Year | Postgraduate | Undergraduate | ||||||
Number awarded QTS | Number not awarded QTS | Total | Percentage awarded QTS | Number awarded QTS | Number not awarded QTS | Total | Percentage awarded QTS | |
2009/10 | 755 | 96 | 851 | 89% | 12 | 2 | 14 | 86% |
2010/11 | 762 | 78 | 840 | 91% | 19 | 2 | 21 | 90% |
2011/12 | 464 | 71 | 535 | 87% | 17 | 7 | 24 | 71% |
2012/13 | 419 | 65 | 484 | 87% | 25 | 5 | 30 | 83% |
2013/14 | 321 | 23 | 344 | 93% | 12 | 0 | 12 | 100% |
Further information is available online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-teacher-training