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347004

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what monitoring is undertaken of the recruitment of teachers in (a) comprehensive schools, (b) academies and (c) free schools.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	248
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education monitors the number of teachers working in all state funded schools (including all local authority maintained schools, free schools and academies) and the number of vacancies reported by these schools via the annual School Workforce Census. The number of new teachers per year can be calculated using the census.</p><p> </p><p>The information on teacher numbers and vacancies is also used by the department to determine the number of teacher training places that will be made available in each year. The take up of these teacher training places is monitored by the National College for Teaching and Leadership via the Initial Teacher Training Census.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 03/06/2015 13:55:49 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

347005

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what representations she has received on the ability of (a) comprehensive schools, (b) academies and (c) free schools to recruit teachers.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	249
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>The Secretary of State for Education has received representations on teacher recruitment from individual schools, a head teacher group, professional subject associations and an association of universities providing teacher training. Teacher recruitment has also been discussed at the Department for Education’s programme of talks with the teaching unions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 03/06/2015 13:57:27 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

347006

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what plans she has to improve the recruitment of mathematics and science teachers in (a) comprehensive schools and (b) academies.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	250
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>We want to attract the top graduates into teaching. For 2015/16, we are continuing to fund the prestigious scholarship schemes worth £25,000 in mathematics, physics and chemistry; and have announced increases in bursaries worth up to £25,000 in each of these subjects and up to £9,000 for biology. We are also continuing to provide bursaries of up to £9,000 for those training in English.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>An additional £6,000 grant uplift is available to schools that want to increase their salary offer for School Direct (salaried) trainees in maths, physics and computing. Funding for subject knowledge enhancement (SKE) courses remains available for trainees in a number of subjects including maths, physics and chemistry. SKE helps trainees to start initial teacher training (ITT) with refreshed, curriculum-specific subject knowledge.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister announced on 11 March 2015 a further allocation of £67 million for the next five years to train an extra 2,500 mathematics and physics teachers and upskilling 15,000 existing teachers. Measures include new schemes to attract more A Level students, undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers, career-changers and overseas STEM teachers into teaching; and classes to upskill 3,000 non-specialist teachers each year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have also given greater freedom to schools to pay extra for the recruitment of qualified teachers which can be used for shortage subject teachers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 252 question first answered 03/06/2015 14:00:18 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

347008

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to improve the recruitment of qualified (a) science, (b) mathematics and (c) English teachers.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	252
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>We want to attract the top graduates into teaching. For 2015/16, we are continuing to fund the prestigious scholarship schemes worth £25,000 in mathematics, physics and chemistry; and have announced increases in bursaries worth up to £25,000 in each of these subjects and up to £9,000 for biology. We are also continuing to provide bursaries of up to £9,000 for those training in English.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>An additional £6,000 grant uplift is available to schools that want to increase their salary offer for School Direct (salaried) trainees in maths, physics and computing. Funding for subject knowledge enhancement (SKE) courses remains available for trainees in a number of subjects including maths, physics and chemistry. SKE helps trainees to start initial teacher training (ITT) with refreshed, curriculum-specific subject knowledge.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister announced on 11 March 2015 a further allocation of £67 million for the next five years to train an extra 2,500 mathematics and physics teachers and upskilling 15,000 existing teachers. Measures include new schemes to attract more A Level students, undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers, career-changers and overseas STEM teachers into teaching; and classes to upskill 3,000 non-specialist teachers each year.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have also given greater freedom to schools to pay extra for the recruitment of qualified teachers which can be used for shortage subject teachers.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb grouped question UIN 250 question first answered 03/06/2015 14:00:18 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

347013

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Cooperative Trust Schools
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential benefits of cooperative schools.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Heeley
tabling member printed	Louise Haigh
uin	257
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education only collects information on the categories of schools as set out in legislation. Since co-operative schools are not a separate category but form a sub-set of trust schools, information is only collected on trust schools in general.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 03/06/2015 14:06:02 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4473 label Biography information for Louise Haigh

347097

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Recruitment
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of the allocation of (a) physics and (b) mathematics teacher recruitment places are allocated to (i) higher education institutions and (ii) Schools Direct.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	27
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education has published data on the allocation of initial teacher training (ITT) places for the 2015/16 academic year online at:</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/allocation-of-initial-teacher-training-places" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/allocation-of-initial-teacher-training-places</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Since 2013, the department has placed no limit on the number of physics or mathematics places that any school or ITT provider can deliver.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 03/06/2015 13:34:16 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

347099

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when her Department will publish the next School Workforce Census.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	28
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>The results of the November 2014 School Workforce Census will be published on 2 July 2015 as previously announced:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/about/statistics#forthcoming-publications" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-education/about/statistics#forthcoming-publications</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 03/06/2015 13:36:42 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

347105

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	University Technical Colleges: Admissions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many recruits will be taken on by (a) the University of Birmingham UTS and (b) Cambridge University UTS in September (i) 2015, (ii) 2016 and (iii) 2017.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	30
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>Neither of the two university training schools is open and therefore neither currently holds an allocation of places.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the first year of opening (2015/16), the University of Cambridge Training School has no plans to take on any trainees. It plans to take on up to three trainees per year in the 2016/17 and 2017/18 academic years.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>In the first three years of opening, the University of Birmingham Training School plans to host up to 12 trainees or placements from partner schools.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 03/06/2015 13:41:32 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

347108

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the conversion rate is from initial teacher training to newly qualified teacher accreditation for the last three years for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	31
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is published by the Department for Education and is published online at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/itt-performance-profiles-management-information-2012-to-2013" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/itt-performance-profiles-management-information-2012-to-2013</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>This data shows the proportion of teachers that secure employment in a teaching post within six months of qualification. It does not capture those teachers who might choose to delay their entry into the workforce.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 03/06/2015 13:42:53 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

347110

registered interest
date	27/05/2015
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Teachers: Training
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of initial teacher training allocations will be filled by the Schools Direct Programme in (a) 2015, (b) 2016, (c) 2017, (d) 2018 and (e) 2019.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	33
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/06/2015 answer text <p>The information requested in part (a) is published by the Department for Education and is available online at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/allocation-of-initial-teacher-training-places" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/allocation-of-initial-teacher-training-places</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>We have not yet made any decisions about the distribution of places after the 2015/16 year. Lead schools and accredited initial teacher training providers will be invited to register their interest in due course.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 03/06/2015 13:44:21 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt