This Department is about to complete an exercise to forecast the number of teacher training places that will be needed during the next few years, and I will shortly be notifying these to the Training and Development Agency for Schools to enable it to begin allocating training places.
(2) what proportion of secondary teacher trainees, in each subject for which there are initial teacher training targets, who gained Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) were shown as in service in the database of teacher records at the end of the financial year three years after they gained QTS for each year from 1998.
The information is not available in the format requested.
The following table provides the percentage of full and part-time teachers who entered local authority maintained sector service in England in the year after qualification in March 1998 and 2003 and were still in such service three years later, broken down by primary and for secondary by subject of initial teacher training.
Three year retention rate (percentage) 2001 2002 2003 2004 20053 20063 Primary 82 83 80 82 83 83 Mathematics 76 75 78 75 78 79 English 77 76 77 76 79 81 Science 77 73 74 76 79 79 Modern Foreign Languages 72 68 66 72 72 71 Technology 74 80 79 78 84 83 History 83 82 81 79 81 83 Geography 75 80 79 79 82 80 Art 80 72 79 79 80 79 Music 78 73 76 76 79 77 RE 75 76 78 80 77 76 PE 80 83 81 82 86 85 Other 78 77 71 79 79 74 Overall secondary 77 76 76 77 79 80 1. Excludes Academies and CTCs. 2. Includes teachers qualifying through college based routes to qualified teachers status, SCITTs and Open University but excludes employment based routes. 3 Provisional. Source: Database of teacher records
There is also some information available from the Training and Development Agency (TDA) which provides the employment status of teachers six months after obtaining qualified teacher status (QTS). The following tables provide the information for primary schools and secondary schools by subject for each year from 1998-99 to 2005-06.
Percentage Number of final year mainstream primary trainees gaining QTS Proportion of trainees gaining QTS who are known to enter a teaching post in a maintained school six months Proportion of trainees gaining QTS who are known to enter a teaching post in a school with an unknown sector six months after gaining QTS after gaining QTS Proportion of trainees gaining QTS who have an unknown destination 1998-99 11,740 66 9 11 1999-2000 9,880 74 6 14 2000-01 10,540 73 10 12 2001-02 10,720 74 6 11 2002-03 11,930 69 5 12 2003-04 12,470 67 6 13 2004-05 12,690 70 5 12 2005-06 12,680 70 6 10
Percentage Subject of ITT training Number of final year mainstream secondary trainees gaining QTS Proportion of trainees gaining QTS who are known to enter a teaching post in a maintained school six months after gaining QTS Proportion of trainees gaining QTS who are known to enter a teaching post in a school with an unknown sector six months after gaining QTS Proportion of trainees gaining QTS who have an unknown destination 1998-99 Mathematics 940 68 11 9 English4 1,830 64 12 12 Science 1,910 60 11 11 Modern languages 1,410 58 14 13 Technology 1,360 61 10 14 Design and technology 740 62 12 14 Information and communications technology 250 59 10 15 Business studies 370 60 7 12 History 790 52 14 16 Geography 680 54 10 13 Art and design 810 56 11 15 Music 440 57 14 12 Religious education 530 56 10 12 Physical education 1,340 63 9 11 Other5 170 58 12 12 Citizenship — — — — Total 12,340 60 11 12 1999-2000 Mathematics 1,060 68 10 13 English4 1,700 70 8 14 Science 1,940 68 10 13 Modern languages 1,290 63 11 15 Technology 1,360 65 10 16 Design and technology 650 63 13 17 Information and communications technology 310 66 6 18 Business studies 340 70 10 12 History 760 62 10 16 Geography 750 70 7 12 Art and design 700 64 6 18 Music 470 65 12 15 Religious education 450 67 7 16 Physical education 1,150 74 4 12 Other5 270 60 12 13 Citizenship — — — — Total 11,820 67 9 14 2000-01 Mathematics 990 72 10 10 English4 1.750 75 7 12 Science 1,940 72 8 12 Modern languages 1,390 69 6 16 Technology 1,400 67 13 12 Design and technology 670 69 13 12 Information and communications technology 400 68 11 12 Business studies 340 60 16 13 History 770 71 9 12 Geography 790 67 11 12 Art and design 670 67 7 15 Music 470 66 8 15 Religious education 450 64 12 15 Physical education 1,200 75 7 9 Other5 290 64 9 8 Citizenship — — — — Total 12,100 70 9 12 2001-02 Mathematics 1,090 77 5 9 English4 1,800 78 6 10 Science 2,030 77 5 9 Modern languages 1,340 72 4 14 Technology 1,540 73 10 10 Design and technology 690 73 10 11 Information and communications technology 460 76 7 9 Business studies 400 71 13 8 History 790 72 3 15 Geography 810 72 4 13 Art and design 630 71 4 16 Music 470 76 4 10 Religious education 440 71 5 13 Physical education 1,270 79 4 7 Other5 240 68 5 12 Citizenship 130 75 6 9 Total 12,550 75 5 11 2002-03 Mathematics 1,270 72 4 13 English4 2,070 74 5 13 Science 2,140 71 5 12 Modern languages 1,350 62 6 17 Technology 1,850 77 6 8 Design and technology 740 77 5 11 Information and communications technology 620 76 6 9 Business studies 490 78 6 5 History 840 67 6 13 Geography 800 70 6 14 Art and design 720 66 8 15 Music 460 65 9 17 Religious education 440 67 6 12 Physical education 1,180 79 3 8 Other5 210 44 6 32 Citizenship 180 65 11 15 Total 13,490 71 6 13 2003-04 Mathematics 1,520 74 6 10 English4 2,170 72 7 11 Science 2,310 72 6 10 Modern languages 1,450 64 8 14 Technology 2,060 72 6 13 Design and technology 830 74 6 13 Information and communications technology 750 73 6 13 Business studies 470 68 9 14 History 850 69 6 9 Geography 850 71 7 8 Art and design 810 69 8 10 Music 510 71 8 11 Religious education 460 69 5 11 Physical education 1,390 78 4 6 Other5 280 66 11 8 Citizenship 0 78 8 9 Total 14,860 71 6 10 2004-05 Mathematics 1,570 74 4 10 English4 2,050 78 5 9 Science 2,230 73 5 10 Modern languages 1,360 60 6 13 Technology 2,070 73 6 11 Design and technology 800 75 5 11 Information and communications technology 750 72 6 14 Business studies 520 72 8 7 History 830 75 4 9 Geography 810 70 7 9 Art and design 670 69 6 11 Music 500 72 6 9 Religious education 470 77 3 9 Physical education 1,330 75 5 10 Other5 370 69 8 10 Citizenship 220 67 5 19 Total 14,460 72 5 10 2005-06 Mathematics 1,550 73 4 8 English4 2,000 77 5 8 Science 2,410 71 6 9 Modern languages 1,260 60 6 13 Technology 1,950 73 6 8 Design and technology 720 78 5 8 Information and communications technology 750 71 8 11 Business studies 490 71 5 5 History 780 70 7 6 Geography 750 71 6 6 Art and design 620 68 6 9 Music 560 70 6 10 Religious education 520 69 10 8 Physical education 1,270 79 6 6 Other5 930 66 11 10 Citizenship 190 75 6 13 Total 14,420 72 6 8 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 Employment information is not collected for trainees who enter ITT through employment based routes 3 Numbers are individually rounded to the nearest 10. 4 English includes dance and drama. 5 Other includes classics, economics, social studies, vocational subjects (from 2003/04 onwards) and assessment only records (in 2005-06) Source: TDA performance profiles