May. 03 2024
Source Page: Digital mental health technology: user and public perspectivesFound: of these products to healthcare professionals, to other ‘intermediaries’ such as social workers or teachers
May. 03 2024
Source Page: Readiness for Remote Learning ReportFound: and learners; and in turn, schools and teachers are slightly better placed than learners.
Found: papers, herbal smoking product or a vaping product as evidence of a customer's age, (c) training
Asked by: Barbara Keeley (Labour - Worsley and Eccles South)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference to the findings in the report entitled Teacher Labour Market in England: Annual Report, published by the National Foundation for Educational Research in March 2024, what steps she is taking to help ensure that the Government meets its Initial Teacher Training targets for music teachers.
Answered by Damian Hinds - Minister of State (Education)
Postgraduate Initial Teacher Training (PGITT) recruitment represents a subset of entrants to teaching. Targets do not include all routes. For example, they do not include undergraduate courses.
Each year the department also recruits teachers that return to the profession having previously left the state-funded teaching sector, as well as those that were already qualified but are new to the sector.
The last School Workforce Census, which took place in June 2023, showed that 48,000 teachers entered the profession. Around one third of these were made up of those returning to the profession and half were new teachers entering through PGITT routes.
In the 2023/24 academic year, there were 216 new postgraduate entrants in music, which was 27% of the PGITT target. This is a decline in recruitment from the 2022/23 academic year, in which there were 292 new postgraduate entrants in music or 62% of the PGITT. The PGITT for music increased by 68% in 2023/24, which may partly explain some of the change in performance against the recruitment target.
As of 22 April 2024, 171 candidates have accepted an offer to begin a PGITT course in music in the 2024/25 academic year, which is a 24% increase from the same point last year.
For those intending to train as music teachers in the 2024/25 academic year, the department has introduced a bursary of £10,000 to support and encourage talented trainees to enter the profession. Music trainee teachers can also apply for a tuition fee loan and a maintenance loan to support their living costs. Additional funding is available depending on individual circumstances, such as the Childcare Grant.
The department accepted the School Teachers’ Review Body’s recommendations in full for a 6.5% teacher pay award in 2023, which saw the government achieve its manifesto commitment of £30,000 starting salaries for all teachers in England. This is an attractive offer, which forms part of the overall remuneration package for teachers, including a generous employer pension contribution rate of 28.6%.
Alongside the department’s financial levers, the department is continuing to invest in attracting the best teachers where they are needed most through the teaching marketing campaign and support services for prospective trainees, as well as its new in-house teacher recruitment journey and associated digital services.
May. 02 2024
Source Page: Infographic: VTQ results 2024 - Top tips for exams officersFound: for exams officers Ref: Ofqual/24/7134 HTML Details Graphics reminding exams officers and teachers
May. 02 2024
Source Page: Flu & COVID-19 Vaccination Programme (FVCV) 2023-24 Equality Impact AssessmentFound: yet at school) • All primary and secondary school pupils • Nursery, primary and second ary school teachers
May. 02 2024
Source Page: Number of Teacher induction scheme probationers for each of the last five years: FOI releaseFound: of the last five years a)Computing, b) Maths, c) Biology, d) Physics, and e) Chemistry.Probationer teachers
Found: papers, herbal smoking product or a vaping product as evidence of a customer's age, (c) training
Written Evidence May. 01 2024
Inquiry: Defence Spending in Northern IrelandFound: Primary Engineer) are actively promoting engineering as a career field accessible to all, promoting training
Oral Evidence May. 01 2024
Committee: Constitution CommitteeFound: We are invited to take part in judicial training work in Scotland.