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<p>The annual Initial Teacher Training (ITT) census provides data on the number of
trainee teachers recruited each year in which citizenship trainees are included in
the “Other” subject category.</p><p>Analysis of the underlying data shows that in
the academic year 2018-19, 37 postgraduate trainees began training in citizenship.[1][2]
Of the 385 trainees included in the “Other” subject category, 146 trainees do not
belong to any of the available subject categories and therefore it is not known if
any of these are citizenship trainees.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does not collect
data on the subject options provided in schools therefore entries into GCSE citizenship
by schools included in Key Stage 4 performance tables has been provided instead. In
2018, 492 schools included in Key Stage 4 performance tables had pupils with entries
into GCSE Citizenship. [3][4][5] This accounts for 9.3% of schools included in Key
Stage 4 performance tables for that year.</p><p> </p><p>Citizenship is an important
part of the national curriculum at Key Stage 3 and 4. We want all children to leave
school with the knowledge, skills, and values that will prepare them to be citizens
in modern Britain. Schools have freedom to decide how they wish to teach the citizenship
curriculum to meet the needs of all their pupils.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>[1] Figures
for 2018/19 are provisional and subject to change.</p><p>[2] Data was extracted on
19 November 2018.</p><p>[3] Includes state funded and independent schools, excludes
alternative provision and pupil referral units. School performance tables includes
schools based on their status as of 12 September the previous year.</p><p>[4] Only
entries by pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 at schools which were published Key Stage
4 performance tables are included and no discounting has been applied so these totals
may differ from those reported in our statistical release.</p><p>[5] In 2018, the
reformed 9-1 GCSE in Citizenship counted in performance tables for the first time,
replacing the unreformed A*-G qualification in the same subject. Once a reformed qualification
is included in performance tables, the unreformed qualification no longer counts,
regardless of when it was entered.</p><p> </p>
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