Teachers: Employment
(asked on 5th September 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of graduate teachers secured a permanent teaching post within a year of graduation in each of the last five years.
The table below shows final year postgraduate trainee award status and employment outcomes for the last five years. The statistics on employment outcomes are collected within six months of trainees being awarded qualified teacher status (QTS).
Trainee cohort | Total trainees awarded QTS1 | Total in a teaching post, within 6 months of gaining QTS2 | Percentage in a teaching post, within 6 months of gaining QTS 2 |
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2014/15 | 22,738 | 21,579 | 95% |
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2013/14 | 23,730 | 22,380 | 94% |
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2012/13 | 23,145 | 21,488 | 93% |
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2011/12 | 23,845 | 21,895 | 92% |
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2010/11 | 25,163 | 21,971 | 87% |
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This table is derived from Table 6a of the main tables in the ‘Initial teacher training performance profiles: 2014 to 2015’ statistical release which was published on 28 July 2016 and is available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-performance-profiles-2014-to-2015