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225785

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they will announce the membership and remit of the group charged with developing a framework of content for initial teacher training; and whether the group will include a balance of representation from university teacher education institutions and school-centred initial teacher training organisations and schools.
tabling member printed	Baroness Donaghy
uin	HL5548
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>In the government response to the publication of the Carter Review, the Secretary of State for Education commissioned an independent working group, comprising of expert representatives from the sector, to develop a core framework of initial teacher training content. The Secretary of State will be announcing the membership of the group shortly, along with further details about the remit of this work.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 18/03/2015 16:34:43 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4166 label Biography information for Baroness Donaghy

225787

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what role accredited initial teacher training (ITT) providers and their representative bodies will have in developing national standards for ITT mentors in schools.
tabling member printed	Baroness Donaghy
uin	HL5549
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/03/2015 answer text <p>In the government response to the publication of the Carter Review, the Secretary of State for Education committed to commissioning the Teaching Schools Council to develop national standards for initial teacher training (ITT) mentors in schools. The Teaching Schools Council will decide how best to engage with the sector to develop these standards, including their engagement with ITT providers.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 18/03/2015 16:35:17 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4166 label Biography information for Baroness Donaghy

225888

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
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, how her Department monitors how many teachers receive dyslexia awareness training as part of their continual professional development.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	226687
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department for Education does not hold figures for the number of teachers receiving dyslexia awareness training. It is for schools to ensure they have an appropriately trained workforce to meet the needs of children with special educational needs (SEN) or disabilities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department is enabling teachers to develop their ability to support children with SEN and disabilities through its National Scholarship Fund. This provides funding for staff to undertake postgraduate-level qualifications in specific impairments, including Masters-level training in Dyslexia. Since 2011, over 1,800 members of staff in schools have received support through the National Scholarship Fund.</p><p> </p><p>The Department is also funding a range of voluntary and community organisations to support school teachers and local authorities to improve the support available to dyslexic pupils. This includes the Primary Literacy Project, aimed at improving the literacy levels of pupils most at risk of literacy difficulties and dyslexia. 736 teachers and teaching assistants have attended school training sessions over the two years of the project. The British Dyslexia Association training department also delivered around 380 courses to approximately 6,500 teachers during 2014.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Crewe and Nantwich answering member printed Mr Edward Timpson question first answered 16/03/2015 16:43:34 answering member 1605 label Biography information for Edward Timpson
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

224195

registered interest
date	27/02/2015
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 estimate her Department has made of the number of Teach First participants who remain in (a) their original position and (b) teaching after their initial two year training programme in (i) Hull and (ii) nationally in (A) 2014-15 and (B) 2009-10.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull North
tabling member printed	Diana Johnson
uin	225795
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/03/2015 answer text <p>There are nationally 3,704 Teach First participants who started since 2009/10 and are still teaching in schools today. This includes 1,338 who have completed the programme and 2,366 currently training in England.</p><p> </p><p>Teach First started placing trainees in Hull in 2011. Since then 28 trainees have completed the programme in the Kingston upon Hull local area. 19 of those teachers are still teaching, with 13 still in Kingston upon Hull local authority.</p><p> </p><p>Nationally, 1,387 participants started the Teach First programme in June 2014.</p><p> </p><p>Out of the 2014 trainee cohort, 11 are currently training in Kingston upon Hull local authority across five schools:</p><p> </p><ol><li>Archbishop Sentamu Academy (2)</li><li>Kingswood Academy (3)</li><li>Sirius Academy (2)</li><li>Winifred Holtby Academy (2)</li><li>Thomas Ferens Academy (2)</li></ol><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 05/03/2015 16:36:25 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	1533 label Biography information for Dame Diana Johnson

223246

registered interest
date	24/02/2015
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 amount her Department spent on marketing (a) the Troops to Teachers scheme and (b) each other Initial Teacher Training scheme between June 2013 and 31 December 2014.
tabling member constituency	Stockton North
tabling member printed	Alex Cunningham
uin	225107
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2015 answer text <p>For Troops to Teachers, the Department for Education allocated £52,046 for marketing and communications to the Ministry of Defence’s resettlement contractor between June 2013 and 31 December 2014.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Between June 2013 and December 2014 the Department for Education spent £5,585,000 on other initial teacher training marketing.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 27/02/2015 11:37:16 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4122 label Biography information for Alex Cunningham

224283

registered interest
date	24/02/2015
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 recent assessment she has made of the relative effectiveness of the different routes into teacher training.
tabling member constituency	Kingston upon Hull East
tabling member printed	Karl Turner
uin	907801
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2015 answer text <p>The Department regularly assesses demand from the sector, how well different Initial Teacher Training (ITT) routes attract trainees and trainee quality by route. Sir Andrew Carter also considered this issue in his independent Review of ITT. <br> <br> It is too early to carry out a final comparison of the new routes into teaching. We would need data on their trainees’ impact in the classroom, which is not yet available for our new routes. The first full cohort of School Direct trainees have, for example, only been teaching for one term. <br> <br> The Department has, however, recently initiated a project to link together the School Workforce Census and 2013/14 ITT performance profiles in order to piece together teachers’ professional journeys from ITT into employment and their subsequent progression. In time, with the addition of further data, this will enable us to look at the influence of different ITT routes on teacher employment, mobility, progression and retention.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 02/03/2015 16:45:54 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	4030 label Biography information for Karl Turner

222467

registered interest
date	20/02/2015
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, pursuant to the Answer of 11 February 2015 to Question 223692, if she will extend all bursaries to all students focusing on core curriculum on the Initial Teacher Training programme.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Mr David Blunkett
uin	224632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/02/2015 answer text <p>The Government provides bursaries in order to incentivise application to initial teacher training (ITT) courses from the best graduates. As such, bursary rates are set based on recruitment performance over recent years by phase and subject. Generally, higher bursaries are provided where a phase or subject has struggled to attract sufficient applicants in recent years. We review the financial incentives for ITT each year in order to respond to recruitment patterns across these phases, subjects and routes. Therefore, we have no current plans to extend bursary eligibility, but we will review this again before announcing bursaries for those starting ITT in 2016/17.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The bursaries for those starting ITT in 2015/16 are published online at:</p><p><a href="http://www.gov.uk/funding-initial-teacher-training-itt-academic-year-2015-to-16" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/funding-initial-teacher-training-itt-academic-year-2015-to-16</a></p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 25/02/2015 17:17:17 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett

178310

registered interest
date	06/02/2015
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, how many entrants there were into initial teacher education in England in the academic years (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, (c) 2012-13, (d) 2013-14 and (e) 2014-15; and what the level of recruitment of such entrants for the forthcoming academic year was at 1 February 2015.
tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
tabling member printed	Mr David Blunkett
uin	223692
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2015 answer text <p>Initial teacher training (ITT) recruitment information for the 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14 and 2014/15 academic years is provided in the following table. This information is published in the annual ITT census. Information for the 2015/16 academic year will be available when we publish the next census at the end of November 2015.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>UCAS publish within cycle recruitment reports, the latest of which can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.ucas.com/corporate/data-and-analysis/ucas-teacher-training-statistical-releases" target="_blank">www.ucas.com/corporate/data-and-analysis/ucas-teacher-training-statistical-releases</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td colspan="4"><p><strong>Initial teacher training new entrants, 2010/11 to 2014/15</strong></p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td><p><strong>New entrants to Primary programmes</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>New entrants to Secondary programmes</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Total new entrants</strong></p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>2010/11</p></td><td><p>18,360</p></td><td><p>19,440</p></td><td><p>37,800</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>2011/12</p></td><td><p>19,870</p></td><td><p>15,850</p></td><td><p>35,720</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>20,480</p></td><td><p>14,815</p></td><td><p>34,880</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>19,445</p></td><td><p>13,334</p></td><td><p>32,779</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>19,213</p></td><td><p>12,943</p></td><td><p>32,543</p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"><p>Source: <a href="http://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2014-to-2015" target="_blank">www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2014-to-2015</a></p><p> </p></td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Notes</strong></p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>1) Figures for 2014/15 are provisional and are subject to change. Figures for 2013/14 have been revised.</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>2) Teach First and Troops to Teachers are excluded.</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"><p>3) Data refers to the number of new entrants on 8 October 2014 and was extracted on 10 November 2014.</p></td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p>4) Total includes forecast registrations in 2014/15.</p></td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="5"> </td><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>This year we have recruited 32,156 trainees with a further 387 projected to start later in the academic year. This is slightly less than the number recruited in 2013, however, this will not result in a teacher shortage since not all trainees progress into teaching immediately after training, and schools can recruit teachers from other avenues.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Department for Education is taking a number of steps to drive up recruitment in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects for 2015/16, including increasing bursaries and scholarships for postgraduate ITT recruitment up to £25,000; paying a £5,000 bonus to maths, physics and computing trainees on our salaried scheme; and continuing to promote the subject knowledge enhancement programme.</p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 11/02/2015 17:26:17 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	395 label Biography information for Lord Blunkett

177696

registered interest
date	04/02/2015
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, how many hours of physical education training trainee teachers received in each of the last 10 years.
tabling member constituency	Bradford South
tabling member printed	Mr Gerry Sutcliffe
uin	223312
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/02/2015 answer text <p>The information requested is not held centrally.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Yeovil answering member printed Mr David Laws question first answered 11/02/2015 17:24:33 answering member 1473 label Biography information for Mr David Laws
tabling member	403 label Biography information for Mr Gerry Sutcliffe

174929

registered interest
date	21/01/2015
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	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government what plans they have to incentivise high-performing graduates to take up teacher training.
tabling member printed	Lord Storey
uin	HL4308
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2015 answer text <p>The Government is committed to recruiting the most talented graduates to enter initial teacher training (ITT). We offer a range of financial incentives to attract the very best graduates into teaching. From 2012/13, the highest bursaries for ITT have been awarded to graduates with first or 2:1 degree classifications and for subjects in which it is traditionally difficult to recruit for.</p><p> </p><p>In September 2014, we announced increases to tax-free ITT bursaries for chemistry, computing, maths, physics and languages trainee teachers to £25,000 for graduates with first class degrees starting their ITT in 2015/16. Trainees with a 2:1 degree training to teach physics will also receive £25,000 and those training to teach chemistry, maths, computing and languages will receive £20,000. We have also increased bursaries in biology, geography, design and technology (D&amp;T), and primary maths, and introduced a new bursary for religious education (RE). Full details of financial incentives for ITT are published online at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.education.gov.uk/get-into-teaching/funding/postgraduate-funding" target="_blank">www.education.gov.uk/get-into-teaching/funding/postgraduate-funding</a></p><p> </p><p>In addition, we work in partnership with professional bodies to offer tax-free scholarship awards of £25,000 to those entering chemistry, computing, maths and physics ITT. These prestigious awards are aimed at high-quality graduates who are passionate about their subject and have the potential to be inspirational teachers.</p><p> </p><p>As well as the financial award, scholars gain access to a range of support and resource not available to non-scholars including: membership to a range of scholar communities; mentoring, including career mentoring, by expert subject teachers and employers; networking events and educational trips throughout the training year and; continuing professional development opportunities. Upon completion of the course, scholars are expected to become ambassadors for the scheme sharing their resources and support with other teachers and colleagues.</p><p> </p><p>Since 2010, the proportion of new entrants to ITT with a 2:1 or first class degree has increased from 63% to 73% in 2014/15. Larger increases have been seen in subjects such as maths and physics.</p><p> </p><p>The Government continues to fund Teach First, and for 2015/16 ITT we have increased the number of places by 33%, from 1,500 to 2000. We have also recently announced an expansion of the popular Chairs in Maths and Physics programme, which looks to attract some of the brightest and best post-doctoral researchers into the classroom by providing enhanced salaries and a dedicated training and development programme.</p><p> </p><p>Decisions on financial incentives for ITT are taken on an annual basis in light of recruitment performance.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 29/01/2015 13:03:16 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
tabling member	4238 label Biography information for Lord Storey