Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which higher education institution providers of initial teacher education have reduced their allocation for PGCE secondary training in (a) history, (b) geography, (c) English and (d) STEM subjects in 2015-16; and what that reduction is as a proportion of that provider's 2014-15 allocations in each case.

For the 2014/15 and 2015/16 academic years, we operated an allocations system to distribute initial teacher training (ITT) places directly to School Direct lead schools, school-centred initial teacher training providers (SCITTs) and higher education institutions (HEIs). For recent years detailed initial and final allocations data for individual HEIs can be found on GOV.UK:

• 2015/16 GOV.UK links:

  • Initial allocations: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-allocations-for-academic-year-2015-to-2016

  • Final allocations summary: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-itt-recruitment-controls

  • Summary of final core postgraduate ITT places available to all HEIs in:

    • (a) history = 243;

    • (b) geography = 462;

    • (c) English = 866; and

    • (d) STEM* = 5081)

• 2014/15 GOV.UK links:

  • https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-allocations-for-academic-year-2014-to-2015

  • Summary of final core postgraduate places available to all HEIs in:

    • (a) history = 363;

    • (b) geography = 472;

    • (c) English = 867 and

    • (d) STEM* = 5086)

*STEM subjects include: Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Design & Technology and Computing.