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<p>Provisional data in the Initial Teacher Training Census shows that 94% of targeted
initial teacher training (ITT) places were filled in 2014/15. The shortfall will not
result in a teacher shortage, since not all newly qualified teacher progress into
teaching immediately after training, and schools can recruit teachers from other avenues.
The quality of entrants to ITT remains high with 73% of all new postgraduate entrants
in 2014/15 holding a 2:1 degree or higher and 17%, a new record, having a first. This
confirms that teaching remains an attractive career choice for the best graduates
and is recruiting well in a competitive graduate employment market.</p><p>The Government
is already attracting high quality teachers through generous support for trainee teachers
but we need more teachers with maths and physics related degrees. The Prime Minister
announced on 8 December a range of measures to up-skill 15,000 existing teachers and
to recruit up to 2,500 additional specialist maths and physics teachers over the next
Parliament. As the Department for Education develops proposals within the STEM teacher
supply package, we will consider how they might benefit schools in disadvantaged areas
in terms of increasing access and opportunities to get more specialist maths and physics
teachers into classrooms.</p><p> </p>
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