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	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of (1) the contribution of the Erasmus Plus programme to the supply chain of modern foreign language (MFL) teachers, and (2) the impact on the future supply chain of MFL teachers if the UK withdraws from the Erasmus Plus programme as a consequence of leaving the EU
	tabling member printed	Baroness Coussins
	uin	HL39
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>We have no data on numbers of Erasmus+ participants who go on to be modern foreign language (MFL) teachers. At a national level we are retaining and recruiting the teachers we need. We recognise, however, that the situation is challenging in certain subjects including MFL. Therefore we are offering up to £25,000 for MFL bursaries and</p><p>have expanded the prestigious scholarship scheme for 2017/18 entry by introducing scholarships in MFL.</p><p> </p><p>We are funding subject specialism training in languages for non-specialist teachers who already have some language expertise, and for former language teachers returning to the subject. We have reviewed our approach on returners and developed a package of tailored classroom experience which seeks to increase the number of MFL returners and which will be piloted in the north-west and south-east. This will further complement the wider national package of advisor support available to returning MFL teachers.</p><p> </p><p>We recognise the value of international exchange and collaboration in education and training, as part of our vision for the UK as a global nation. There may be European programmes – such as Erasmus+ – in which we might want to participate. We will consider this as part of the Brexit negotiation.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 28/06/2017 16:43:17 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	3829 label Biography information for Baroness Coussins

731030

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what is their target for the number of school pupils who will (1) study, and (2) achieve, the English Baccalaureate by 2022; what estimate they have made of the number of modern foreign language (MFL) teachers required to meet those targets; and what assessment they have made of the impact on the achievability of those targets of any current or future shortage in MFL teacher numbers
	tabling member printed	Baroness Coussins
	uin	HL38
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/06/2017 answer text <p>The Government believes that the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) provides the right educational foundation for the majority of pupils. We want to see a significant increase in the proportion of pupils in mainstream secondary schools entering the EBacc combination of subjects at GCSE.</p><p> </p><p>We will publish further detail about the EBacc policy in due course.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 29/06/2017 16:28:23 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	3829 label Biography information for Baroness Coussins

732082

	registered interest
	date	22/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government whether, and if so by how much, teacher training targets for secondary schools have been missed for each of the last five years; and what assessment they have made of the impact of any failure to reach those targets on children's education.
	tabling member printed	Lord Ouseley
	uin	HL135
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2017 answer text <p>Published statistics are available that show Initial Teacher Training recruitment in each of the last five years against the targets as set by the Teacher Supply Model. The latest information is contained in the following table.</p><p><strong>Postgraduate ITT new entrants and training places time series by target</strong></p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Secondary</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>Secondary target</p></td><td colspan="4"><p>Percentage of Secondary target</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>14,293</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>13,817</p></td><td colspan="4"><p>103%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>13,050</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>13,340</p></td><td colspan="4"><p>98%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>12,971</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>13,866</p></td><td colspan="4"><p>94%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2015/16r</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>15,183</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>18,541</p></td><td colspan="4"><p>82%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2016/17p</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>15,713</p></td><td colspan="2"><p>17,687</p></td><td colspan="4"><p>89%</p></td></tr><tr><td><p> </p></td><td colspan="2"><p> </p></td><td colspan="6"><p><em>Source: NCTL Initial Teacher Training Census</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><strong>Notes</strong></p><p>1) Coverage: Postgraduate ITT new entrants in England.</p><p>2) Figures for 2016/17 are provisional and are subject to change. Figures for 2015/16 have been revised.</p><p>3) Data were extracted on 1 November 2016.</p><p>4) Teach First data is included from 2015/16, therefore caution should be exercised when comparing figures across time.</p><p>5) 2016/17 total includes forecast registrations.</p><p>6) Targets are taken from the Teacher Supply Model: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-supply-model" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teacher-supply-model</a>.</p><p>7) In 2011/12 to 2014/15 figures from the TSM are estimated by removing undergraduate trainees.</p><p> </p><p>These figures are published in table 1b in the statistical first release ‘Initial teacher training: trainee number census - 2016 to 2017’.</p><p>Teaching continues to be an attractive career choice among graduates and secondary postgraduate recruitment is at its highest level since 2011/12. This is a great achievement, given the increasingly competitive graduate market.</p><p>Schools recruit teachers in a variety of different ways including Newly Qualified teachers, those returning to teaching, and those who have previously taught outside the state-funded schools sector.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 03/07/2017 16:26:31 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	2170 label Biography information for Lord Ouseley

730994

	registered interest
	date	21/06/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government how many Muslim schools, including madrassas, there are in England; how they monitor teaching in those schools; and whether they intend to legislate to require all teaching in such schools to be conducted in English.
	tabling member printed	Lord Pearson of Rannoch
	uin	HL17
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/06/2017 answer text <p>In England there are 27 publicly-funded schools (i.e. local authority maintained schools and academies, including free schools) having a designated religious character as Muslim; and 148 independent schools registered as having a religious ethos of Muslim or Islam, or having a designated religious character of Muslim or Islam (or both)<strong><em>. </em></strong> The Department for Education does not regulate madrassahs or other out-of-school education settings and does not hold a complete record their numbers.</p><p>The quality of teaching in Muslim schools in England is inspected by Ofsted or one of the independent inspectorates approved by the Secretary of State.</p><p>All publicly funded schools must teach English to pupils up to the age of 16. English is both a subject in its own right and the medium for teaching in the vast majority of circumstances. The statutory independent school standards require that pupils acquire speaking, listening, literacy and numeracy skills. While independent schools are not required to teach in the medium of English, the standards require that where they do not, lessons in written and spoken English are provided.</p><p>The Department has no plans to legislate further to require schools to teach in the medium of English. The Department launched a call for evidence setting out proposals for a new system for regulating out-of-school education settings providing intensive education, but this did not suggest that they should be required to teach in English.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 28/06/2017 16:44:35 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	3153 label Biography information for Lord Pearson of Rannoch