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79032

registered interest
date	21/07/2014
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 audit arrangements apply to schools in receipt of School Direct funding; and what steps her Department takes to ensure that such funding is used only to support teacher trainees.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	206762
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p>School Direct funding is paid to schools by the Education Funding Agency (EFA) on behalf of the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL). EFA gains assurance on all funding transferred, including the NCTL funds. This is done using external auditors, audits and reviews of statutory annual accounts.</p><p> </p><p>NCTL has a grant funding agreement in place with all grant recipients, including lead schools that deliver School Direct, under which schools are bound to spend funds for the purpose intended, i.e. initial teacher training.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 01/09/2014 12:05:40 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

79033

registered interest
date	21/07/2014
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, in which subject areas School Direct places have been relinquished.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	206763
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p>This year, as we have done every year, we allocated more initial teacher training (ITT) places than the number of required trainees estimated by the teacher supply model to take account of the likely level of recruitment in each subject.</p><p> </p><p>As is normal, both lead schools and ITT providers have relinquished places since our initial allocation. Lead schools have relinquished places to train teachers in all subject areas with the exception of applied science.</p><p> </p><p>This is based on an analysis of our records using data extracted on 22 July 2014. We intend to publish full detail of the final allocations for the 2014/15 academic year in the coming months.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 01/09/2014 12:03:30 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

79037

registered interest
date	21/07/2014
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, how many initial teacher training places originally allocated to School Direct were offered to higher education providers in June 2014; and how many additional places have been allocated to those providers compared to their original allocations.
tabling member constituency	Cardiff West
tabling member printed	Kevin Brennan
uin	206810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/09/2014 answer text <p>No places originally allocated to lead schools for School Direct have been offered to higher education providers. Earlier this year, we made a number of places available for those schools that have proven popular with applicants and recruited well. We extended this offer to higher education providers in June.</p><p> </p><p>Since they were initially agreed, we have agreed increases to higher education institution (HEI) allocations for a number of reasons. For example, we allocated more places in physics and mathematics throughout the year and we also allowed transfers between particular subjects. The additional places allocated as a result of our offer in June are just part of changes agreed to HEI allocations. We will publish data showing allocations by university and subject in the autumn.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 01/09/2014 12:05:23 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	1400 label Biography information for Kevin Brennan

77368

registered interest
date	11/07/2014
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 steps he is taking to ensure that skilled mathematics and science graduates are attracted to careers in teaching; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
tabling member printed	Simon Kirby
uin	205284
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/07/2014 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting schools in recruiting specialist teachers in mathematics and science. Specific support is provided for individuals interested in teaching these subjects through targeted marketing, personal advisors and securing school experience.</p><p>To attract graduates to teaching these subjects, we have significantly increased tax-free bursaries for mathematics, physics, chemistry and computing trainee teachers from £9,000 in 2012/13 to up to £20,000 in 2014/15. In addition, we continue to work jointly with the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Institute of Physics and BCS, the chartered institute for IT, to offer scholarship awards of £25,000 in order to attract the most talented graduates into initial teacher training.</p><p>For the academic year 2014/15, we have extended our salaried School Direct training programme to encourage more experienced graduates to enter teacher training across a range of subjects, including mathematics and science. School Direct (salaried) is an employment-based route for high-quality, experienced graduates who earn a salary whilst training.</p><p>We are also continuing to fund subject knowledge enhancement courses, which are an important tool to ensure trainee teachers without a first class degree in the subject they will teach have sufficient specialist subject knowledge.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 16/07/2014 14:50:54 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	3929 label Biography information for Simon Kirby

64702

registered interest
date	30/06/2014
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, how many teacher training places were allocated in (a) English, (b) mathematics, (c) all sciences, (d) general science, (e) biology, (f) chemistry, (g) physics, (h) ICT, (i) design and technology, (j) modern languages, (k) geography, (l) history, (m) art and design, (n) music, (o) physical education, (p) religious education, (q) business studies, (r) citizenship, (s) 14 to 19 diploma subjects, (t) other subjects and in all (u) secondary and (v) primary schools across all initial teacher training pathways in (i) 2009-10, (ii) 2010-11, (iii) 2011-12 and (iv) 2012-13.
tabling member constituency	Stoke-on-Trent Central
tabling member printed	Tristram Hunt
uin	203087
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2014 answer text <p>The Department did not allocate places directly to primary or secondary schools in 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2011-12. Places were allocated to accredited initial teacher training (ITT) providers and it is their responsibility to arrange school placements.</p><p> </p><p>For 2012-13, School Direct allocations were assigned to lead schools. This was published alongside all other ITT allocations by the Training and Development Agency. School Direct places are below.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><p><strong>School Direct places 2012-13</strong></p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Primary</p></td><td><p>Primary (all specialisms)</p></td><td><p>121</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Priority secondary</p></td><td><p>Chemistry</p></td><td><p>87</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Mathematics</p></td><td><p>151</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Modern languages</p></td><td><p>87</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Physics</p></td><td><p>82</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Non-priority secondary</p></td><td><p>Art and design</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Biology</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Dance</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Drama</p></td><td><p>8</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Economics</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>English</p></td><td><p>93</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Geography</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>History</p></td><td><p>29</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Music</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Physical education</p></td><td><p>25</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Religious education</p></td><td><p>10</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Applied business</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Applied ICT</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Business studies</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Design and technology</p></td><td><p>11</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>General or combined science</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Health and social care</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>ICT</p></td><td><p>7</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Psychology</p></td><td><p>3</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p>Social sciences (except economics)</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total Secondary</p></td><td> </td><td><p>651</p></td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>Grand Total</p></td><td> </td><td><p>772</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 03/07/2014 16:47:51 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4111 label Biography information for Tristram Hunt

63614

registered interest
date	24/06/2014
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, how many teacher training bursaries for (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15 have been allocated to high-priority subjects of physics and mathematics at each of the four bursary tiers.
tabling member constituency	Rochester and Strood
tabling member printed	Mark Reckless
uin	202240
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>Provisional figures on the number of trainees and proportion with a first or second class honours degree by subject are published in the Initial Teacher Training (ITT) Census in November each year. Finalised figures are published the following year. Provisional figures for 2013-14 are available at:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2013-to-2014/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2013-to-2014" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2013-to-2014</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 30/06/2014 14:44:22 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4049 label Biography information for Mark Reckless

63618

registered interest
date	24/06/2014
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, how many places for initial teacher training starting in 2014 have been allocated to (a) Schools Direct and (b) higher education providers.
tabling member constituency	Rochester and Strood
tabling member printed	Mark Reckless
uin	202239
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>We initially allocated 15,254 places to School Direct and 23,095 places to higher education institutions for the 2014/15 academic year.</p><p>Further details of the initial allocations have been published on the gov.uk website:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-allocations-for-academic-year-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/initial-teacher-training-allocations-for-academic-year-2014-to-2015</a></p><p>We will publish final allocation information reflecting any changes later this year.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 30/06/2014 14:39:47 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4049 label Biography information for Mark Reckless

63623

registered interest
date	24/06/2014
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, how many School Direct initial teacher training offers in (a) 2013-14 and 2014-15 in each subject area were made conditional on completion of a subject knowledge enhancement programme.
tabling member constituency	Rochester and Strood
tabling member printed	Mark Reckless
uin	202236
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/06/2014 answer text <p>Since January 2014, we have allocated subject knowledge enhancement (SKE) places to 110 schools, supporting 151 applicants to commence their initial teacher training. One applicant relates to entry into initial teacher training (ITT) in 2013/14 and 150 relate to entry in 2014/15. We did not collect data on SKE courses requested by School Direct schools before January 2014. Because SKE can be delivered in parallel with ITT, the trainee does not necessarily have to complete SKE prior to starting ITT.</p><p>A full breakdown of SKE course data by subject will be available from October 2014.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 30/06/2014 14:46:02 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4049 label Biography information for Mark Reckless

62616

registered interest
date	18/06/2014
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, how long the recruitment period will be for subject knowledge enhancement courses for 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Walsall South
tabling member printed	Valerie Vaz
uin	201218
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/06/2014 answer text <p>Recruitment to subject knowledge enhancement (SKE) courses is a matter for providers of initial teacher training and lead schools in the School Direct programme. We have announced funding support for SKE courses up to 31 March 2015 and will make a further announcement for the period beyond that in due course.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 24/06/2014 09:54:07 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4076 label Biography information for Valerie Vaz

58549

registered interest
date	05/06/2014
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, if he will allow universities offering Initial Teacher Training programmes to apply for additional places when they fill their annual allocation.
tabling member constituency	Salisbury
tabling member printed	John Glen
uin	199362
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/06/2014 answer text <p> </p><p> </p><p>On 5 June 2014 the National College for Teaching and Leadership announced that a limited number of additional postgraduate places in certain subjects have been made available to higher education institutions (HEIs). Places will only be allocated to the HEIs that have already filled their courses or are close to doing so and have extra candidates looking to train with them.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 11/06/2014 14:27:11 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4051 label Biography information for John Glen