Teachers: Training

(asked on 22nd February 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment her Department has made of the potential effect on teacher training recruitment to shortage subjects of all university providers only recruiting applicants with a 2.1 degree or higher.


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Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 28th February 2017

Teaching is a graduate profession. We do not stipulate a minimum degree class for trainee teachers; however, initial teacher training providers have the freedom to set their own entry requirements. Through the use of bursaries, we encourage those with a higher degree class to enter teaching. Details of bursaries for those beginning courses in 2017/18 can be found here: https://getintoteaching.education.gov.uk/funding-and-salary/overview

The degree class of current postgraduate trainees is provided in Tables 2 and 2a in the Main tables section on:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2016-to-2017.

It includes a breakdown by subject and route.

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