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Teachers: Training

Volume 461: debated on Thursday 14 June 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many students on teacher training courses did not complete such courses in each year between 1997 and 2006. (142522)

The following tables show the number of final year initial teacher training (ITT) trainees for each year between 1998-99 and 2004-05 who did not gain qualified teacher status (QTS) in their final year of training and of these the number who left their course before completion and the number where the outcome of QTS is unknown for:

1. Mainstream initial teacher training (ITT) trainees

2. Employment based routes (EBR) trainees

Table 1. Mainstream final year ITT trainees

Number of mainstream final year trainees who have not gained QTS

Total number of mainstream trainees in their final year

Number of mainstream final year trainees gaining QTS

Known not to have completed course

Undefined outcome

Other outcome

Total

1998/99

27,200

24,070

1,310

460

1,350

3,130

1999/2000

24,650

21,690

1,290

350

1,330

2,960

2000/01

25,720

22,640

1,350

480

1,250

3,080

2001/02

26,350

23,280

1,130

0

1,940

3,070

2000/03

28,570

25,430

1,050

10

2,090

3,140

2003/04

30,970

27,340

1,470

0

2,160

3,630

2004/05

31,360

27,150

1,410

20

2,780

4,210

Notes: 1. Includes trainees from universities and other higher education (HE) institutions, school centred initial teacher training (SCITT) and open universities (OU), but exclude employment based routes (EBR). 2. Numbers are individually rounded to the nearest 10, therefore may not sum. 3. 'Other outcome' includes final year trainees who are yet to complete their course, those with withheld QTS (including those where their skills test was not met, their standards were not met and where both their standards and skills test were not met) and those where the skill test has not been taken (include those whose standards were met and those whose standards were not met). Source:TDA performance profiles.

Table 2. Employment based routes (EBR) trainees

Number of EBR final year trainees who have not gained QTS

Total number of EBR trainees in their final year

Number of EBR final year trainees gaining QTS

Known not to have completed course

Undefined outcome

Other outcome

Total

2001/02

2,440

2,210

30

0

190

230

2002/03

4,030

3,670

340

0

20

360

2003/04

4,950

4,470

440

0

30

470

2004/05

7,220

6,600

260

0

350

610

Notes: 1. Includes trainees through employment based routes (EBR) only. 2. Numbers are individually rounded to the nearest 10, therefore may not sum. 3. 'Other outcome' includes final year trainees who are yet to complete their course, those with withheld QTS (including those where their skills test was not met, their standards were not met and where both their standards and skills test were not met) and those where the skill test has not been taken (include those whose standards were met and those whose standards were not met). Source: TDA performance profiles.