Baroness Coussins – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Baroness Coussins on 2015-09-17.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many Modern Languages teachers have been recruited in each of the last five years to work in (1) primary, and (2) secondary, schools.

Lord Nash

Recruitment to primary initial teacher training (ITT) is not subject specific. Therefore, the Department for Education does not hold data on those recruited in languages to primary schools.

The number of people recruited to secondary ITT in languages over the last five years is shown in the table below: