Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many teachers qualified in (1) Physics, (2) Chemistry, (3) Mathematics, (4) Religious Education, and (5) Modern Foreign Languages in each year from 2010 to 2015.
The information requested is shown in the table below. Data for the academic year 2014 to 2015 will be published in summer 2016.
Numbers Awarded QTS | |||||
Academic Year | Physics | Chemistry | Mathematics | Religious Education | Modern Foreign Languages |
2010/11 | 528 | 873 | 2,394 | 802 | 1,867 |
2011/12 | 630 | 1,104 | 2,273 | 499 | 1,629 |
2012/13 | 627 | 987 | 2,199 | 477 | 1,641 |
2013/14 | 542 | 918 | 2,245 | 403 | 1,472 |
These figures don’t include any data on Teach First teachers. In addition, data from the first full cohort of School Direct is only available from 2013/14.