Speeches

Mark Reckless – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Mark Reckless on 2014-06-24.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many places for initial teacher training starting in 2014 have been allocated to (a) Schools Direct and (b) higher education providers.

Mr David Laws

We initially allocated 15,254 places to School Direct and 23,095 places to higher education institutions for the 2014/15 academic year.

Further details of the initial allocations have been published on the gov.uk website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-allocations-for-academic-year-2014-to-2015

We will publish final allocation information reflecting any changes later this year.