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Newly Qualified Teacher Course

Volume 450: debated on Tuesday 10 October 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many institutions in England offer accredited newly qualified teacher courses; and how many places are available on each course. (90010)

There are a total of 134 accredited initial teacher training (ITT) providers offering post-graduate and under-graduate routes to qualified teacher status (QTS). In the 2006/07 academic year these providers have been allocated a total of 15,253 primary ITT places and 18,450 secondary ITT places.

There are also 102 providers of Employment Based Teacher Training Scheme (EBTTS) courses leading to QTS. In 2006/07 these providers have been allocated a total of 7,289 EBTTS places.

The Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) announced ITT allocations to all training providers for the academic years 2006/07 and 2007/08 on 21 December 2005. Details of allocated places are included in the annexes and are available at http://www.tda.gov.uk/partners/funding/allocations/allocations0708.aspx

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many applications have been made to Newly Qualified Teacher courses in each year since 1999; and how many of these applications have been successful. (90011)

The following information is shown in the table:

applications to under-graduate (UG) and post-graduate (PG) initial teacher training (ITT) courses,

applicants accepted on to a course leading to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS),

acceptances to Employment Based Teacher Training Scheme (EBTTS) courses.

Potential EBTTS trainees apply directly to individual providers of these courses and it is therefore not possible to track the total number of applicants to these courses.

ITT recruitment

Academic year

PG and UG applications

PG and UG accepted applicants

EBTTS recruitment

2000/01

42,035

28,393

2001/02

45,235

28,327

3,143

2002/03

51,124

28,107

3,954

2003/04

55,103

31,044

5,417

2004/05

56,674

31,460

7,106

2005/06

58,275

31,272

7,010

Source:

UG data from UCAS, PG data from GTTR, EBTTS data from the TDA EBTTS database.

Comparative data on applications to ITT courses are not available for the academic year 1999/2000. Accepted applications differ from those given in the Training and Development Agency for School’s (TDA) ITT Trainee Number Census as they do not include forecast trainees.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teachers who qualified overseas are working in schools in England; and how many of these will be required to enrol on a Newly Qualified Teacher course this September if they are to continue teaching. (90012)

The information requested is not collected centrally.

Commonwealth and other foreign teachers who choose to come to our schools are welcome, although not recruited or solicited by the Government. They are well qualified and greatly valued, making an important contribution to schools in England. We know that many stay for one or two years, and can in any event teach for no more than four years here without acquiring Qualified Teacher Status.

The following table provides the number of foreign teachers recruited to the overseas trained teacher programme in each year from 2000-01 to 2004-05, the latest year for which full details are available.

Recruitment to the overseas trained teacher scheme in England by phase, 2000-01 to 2004-05

Primary

Secondary

Total

2000-01

110

80

190

2001-02

310

440

760

2002-03

330

510

830

2003-04

510

710

1,210

2004-05

610

940

1,540

Source:

Teacher Development Agency (TDA)

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimate he has made of the number of applications which will be made to Newly Qualified Teacher courses for entry in September from teachers trained (a) in the UK and (b) overseas. (90013)

The total number of under-graduate and post-graduate places made available to accredited ITT providers for September 2006 is 33,703. A breakdown of these places by UK and overseas trainees is not available. A further 7,289 places have been made available to providers of Employment Based Teacher Training Scheme (EBTTS) courses, including 1,559 places for the Overseas Trained Teacher Programme (OTTP).