Speeches

Robert Flello – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Robert Flello on 2016-01-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many new entrants there were for religious education initial teacher training courses in each of the last five years.

Nick Gibb

The numbers of new entrants to religious education initial teacher training (ITT) courses in England, and the target levels, for each of the last five years are as shown in Table 1 below.

The numbers of people achieving qualified teacher status (QTS) in religious studies in each of the last five years are as shown in Table 2 below.

Table 1: New entrants to Religious Education ITT courses.

Year

Postgraduate ITT new entrants

Postgraduate ITT target

Percentage of the postgraduate target achieved

Undergraduate ITT new entrants

2011/12

463

446

104%

15

2012/13

471

439

107%

12

2013/14

367

450

82%

12

2014/15

386

537

72%

8

2015/16

411

650

63%

14

Table 2: Final year religious education trainees obtaining QTS awards.

Year

Postgraduate

Undergraduate

Number awarded QTS

Number not awarded QTS

Total

Percentage awarded QTS

Number awarded QTS

Number not awarded QTS

Total

Percentage awarded QTS

2009/10

755

96

851

89%

12

2

14

86%

2010/11

762

78

840

91%

19

2

21

90%

2011/12

464

71

535

87%

17

7

24

71%

2012/13

419

65

484

87%

25

5

30

83%

2013/14

321

23

344

93%

12

0

12

100%

Further information is available online at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-teacher-training