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Primary Education: Teachers

Volume 470: debated on Monday 7 January 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what estimate his Department has made of the number of additional primary school teachers required in each of the next 10 years; and if he will make a statement. (169801)

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.

To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) what proportion of primary teacher trainees 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; (174269)

(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.

Retention rate of full and part-time teachers who entered local authority maintained1 sector service in England by the March after the year of their qualification2,1998 to 2003 and were still in service three years later in 2001 to 2006.

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.

Mainstream final year primary trainees employment status1,2,3

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

Mainstream final year secondary trainees employment status1,2,3

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