Initial Teacher Training Census
Academic year 2023/24

Description

This document describes the data included in the Initial Teacher Training Census Official Statistics release’s underlying data files. This data is released under the terms of the Open Government License (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/) and is intended to meet at least 3 stars for Open Data (https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/2010-to-2015-government-policy-government-transparency-and-accountability/2010-to-2015-government-policy-government-transparency-and-accountability#appendix-3-releasing-data-in-open-and-anonymised-formats). The methodology, found at the bottom of the publication site, should be referenced alongside this data. It provides information on the data sources, their coverage and quality as well as explaining methodology used in producing the data.

Coverage

This release provides provisional  numbers of new entrants to ITT courses starting in the academic year 2023/24. The release also provides revised numbers of new entrants to ITT courses starting in the academic year 2022/23. It includes information on:

• training route and subject

• trainee characteristics

This release also provides application data for postgraduate courses that start in 2022/23 and 2023/24.

File formats and conventions

Suppression

Suppression has been applied to the following personal characteristics:

• Gender

• Disability status

• Ethnic group

• Degree

The following symbols have been used within the publication and are defined below:

0  |  Zero
c  |  Small number suppressed to preserve confidentiality
z  |  Not applicable
x  |  Not available

Data files

1) ITT new entrants, recruitment targets and trainee characteristics by subject

Filename: table_1_subject_characteristics.csv
Geographic levels: National
Time period: 2019/20 to 2023/24
Content summary: 
This national level table contains the number of postgraduate and undergraduate new entrants to ITT by subject, as well as performance against ITT recruitment targets and trainee characteristics for postgraduates. The data in this table covers 2019/20(revised), 2020/21 (revised), 2021/22 (revised), 2022/23 (revised) and 2023/24 (provisional).

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name                                  |  Variable description
---------------------------------------------  |  --------------------------------------------
eea_national_postgraduates                     |  EEA national postgraduates
eea_national_postgraduates_percentage          |  EEA national postgraduates percentage
female_postgraduates                           |  Female postgraduates
female_postgraduates_percentage                |  Female postgraduates percentage
itt_recruitment_target                         |  ITT recruitment target
itt_recruitment_target_performance_percentage  |  Percentage of ITT recruitment target reached
itt_subject                                    |  ITT subject
known_sex_postgraduates                        |  Total postgraduates with known sex
male_postgraduates                             |  Male postgraduates
male_postgraduates_percentage                  |  Male postgraduates percentage
other_nationality_postgraduates                |  Other nationality postgraduates
other_nationality_postgraduates_percentage     |  Other nationality postgraduates percentage
other_sex_postgraduates                        |  Other sex postgraduates
other_sex_postgraduates_percentage             |  Other sex postgraduates percentage
total_known_nationality_postgraduates          |  Total postgraduates with known nationality
total_postgraduates                            |  Postgraduate total new entrants to ITT
total_undergraduates                           |  Undergraduate total new entrants to ITT
uk_national_postgraduates                      |  UK national postgraduates
uk_national_postgraduates_percentage           |  UK national postgraduates percentage

Footnotes:

1. STEM Subjects are Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Mathematics and Physics.
2. Business studies: includes economics
3. Design & Technology: includes food technology and engineering.
4. EEA National: here relates to individuals with a European Union, European Economic Area or included in the single market- this includes Swiss nationality. The UK is not included in these figures.
5. The Teacher Workforce Model (TWM) is used by DfE to set postgraduate ITT targets https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/postgraduate-initial-teacher-training-targets/2023-24.
6. Other: includes media and communication studies, social studies, and psychology.
7. Physical Education: includes dance.
8. Subject: The subject given here is ITT subject and may not be the same as the subject of the undergraduate degree held.
9. Data was extracted on 21 November 2023.
10. Figures for 2023/24 are provisional and are subject to change. Figures for 2022/23 and all previous years have been revised.
11. Troops to Teachers are excluded from all figures prior to 2021/22.
12. Total Ebacc: EBacc here includes English, mathematics, modern foreign languages, physics, biology, chemistry, history, geography, computing and classics. Trainees on the 'PE with Ebacc' programme are not included.
13. Sex other: Sex was previously reported as gender. This has been updated as it was previously mislabelled. From 2021/22, trainees who chose not to provide data on sex have been included in an 'unknown' category. Prior to this they were included in 'other'.
14. Data from 2021/22 does not contain forecast trainees, this is due to a change in data collection methodology.
15. Warning: percentages have been rounded and therefore may not sum to 100%.
16. Undergraduate: The majority of undergraduate provision is offered by higher education institutions.
17. Proportions exclude trainees where information was not supplied, or where characteristics/information were reported as ‘unknown’.
18. For 2023/24 only, three providers submitted data with very high numbers of trainees with other sex. These have been recoded as unknown sex while we investigate this with providers.
19. Other contains Citizenship trainees. There were 40 Citizenship trainees in 2022/23 and 23 in 2023/24.


2) ITT new entrants and targets by subject time series

Filename: table_2_subjects_target_time_series.csv
Geographic levels: National
Time period: 2015/16 to 2023/24
Content summary: 
This national level table contains the number of new entrants to ITT by subject for postgraduates and undergraduates and performance against ITT recruitment targets for 2015/16 to 2023/24 (provisional for 2023/24 and revised for previous years).

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name                                  |  Variable description
---------------------------------------------  |  --------------------------------------------
itt_recruitment_target                         |  ITT recruitment target
itt_recruitment_target_performance_percentage  |  Percentage of ITT recruitment target reached
itt_subject                                    |  ITT subject
total_new_entrants                             |  Total new entrants to ITT
total_postgraduates                            |  Postgraduate total new entrants to ITT
total_undergraduates                           |  Undergraduate total new entrants to ITT

Footnotes:

1. Business Studies: includes economics from 2019/20
2. Design & Technology: includes food technology and engineering.
3. The Teacher Workforce Model (TWM) is used by DfE to set postgraduate ITT targets https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/postgraduate-initial-teacher-training-targets/2023-24.
4. Physical Education: includes dance.
5. Subject: The subject given here is ITT subject and may not be the same as the subject of the undergraduate degree held.
6. Data was extracted on 21 November 2023.
7. Figures for 2023/24 are provisional and are subject to change. Figures for 2022/23 and all previous years have been revised.
8. Troops to Teachers are excluded from all figures prior to 2021/22.
9. Data from 2021/22 does not contain forecast trainees, this is due to a change in data collection methodology.
10. Warning: percentages have been rounded and therefore may not sum to 100%.
11. Modern Foreign Languages: here includes classics.
12. Other subject: here includes a different mix of subjects to the main targets by subject table, this is for consistency with historic teacher supply model groupings; Other includes Drama from 2014/15 and Citizenship from 2015/16.
13. Undergraduate: The majority of undergraduate provision is offered by higher education institutions.
14. Proportions exclude trainees where information was not supplied, or where characteristics/information were reported as ‘unknown’.
15. Primary: Prior to 2018/19, a small number of Primary trainees on subject specialist courses were reported against their subject specialism and were included in Total Secondary. From 2018/19, they are reported as Primary.


3) ITT new entrants by subject and training route

Filename: table_3_subject_by_route.csv
Geographic levels: National
Time period: 2019/20 to 2023/24
Content summary: 
This national level table contains the number of both postgraduate and undergraduate new entrants on each ITT route by subject. The data in this table covers 2019/20(revised), 2020/21 (revised), 2021/22 (revised), 2022/23 (revised) and 2023/24 (provisional).

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name                                                 |  Variable description
------------------------------------------------------------  |  --------------------------------------------------------
high_potential_itt                                            |  High Potential ITT trainees
high_potential_itt_postgraduate_percentage                    |  High Potential ITT trainees percentage
higher_education_institution                                  |  Higher Education Institution trainees
higher_education_institution_postgraduate_percentage          |  Higher Education Institution trainees percentage
itt_subject                                                   |  ITT subject
postgraduate_teaching_apprenticeship                          |  Postgraduate Teaching Apprenticeship trainees
postgraduate_teaching_apprenticeship_postgraduate_percentage  |  Postgraduate Teaching Apprenticeship trainees percentage
school_centred_itt                                            |  School Centred ITT trainees
school_centred_itt_postgraduate_percentage                    |  School Centred ITT trainees percentage
school_direct_fee_funded                                      |  School Direct Fee Funded trainees
school_direct_fee_funded_postgraduate_percentage              |  School Direct Fee Funded trainees percentage
school_direct_salaried                                        |  School Direct Salaried trainees
school_direct_salaried_postgraduate_percentage                |  School Direct Salaried trainees percentage
total_new_entrants                                            |  Total new entrants to ITT
total_postgraduates                                           |  Postgraduate total new entrants to ITT
total_postgraduates_percentage                                |  Postgraduate total new entrants to ITT percentage
undergraduate                                                 |  Undergraduate total new entrants to ITT
undergraduate_percentage                                      |  Undergraduate total new entrants to ITT percentage

Footnotes:

1. STEM Subjects are Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Mathematics and Physics.
2. Business studies: includes economics
3. Design & Technology: includes food technology and engineering.
4. Other: includes media and communication studies, social studies, and psychology.
5. Physical Education: includes dance.
6. Subject: The subject given here is ITT subject and may not be the same as the subject of the undergraduate degree held.
7. Data was extracted on 21 November 2023.
8. Figures for 2023/24 are provisional and are subject to change. Figures for 2022/23 and all previous years have been revised.
9. Troops to Teachers are excluded from all figures prior to 2021/22.
10. Total Ebacc: EBacc here includes English, mathematics, modern foreign languages, physics, biology, chemistry, history, geography, computing and classics. Trainees on the 'PE with Ebacc' programme are not included.
11. Warning: percentages have been rounded and therefore may not sum to 100%.
12. Postgraduate Teaching Apprenticeship: The postgraduate teaching apprenticeship (PGTA) was introduced in 2018/19.
13. The 2022/23 revised and 2023/24 provisional data does not contain forecast trainees, this is due to a change in data collection methodology.
14. Undergraduate: The majority of undergraduate provision is offered by higher education institutions.
15. Schools direct salaried: includes salaried programmes i.e. Future Teaching Scholars Programme
16. Proportions exclude trainees where information was not supplied, or where characteristics/information were reported as ‘unknown’.
17. Other contains Citizenship trainees. There were 40 Citizenship trainees in 2022/23 and 23 in 2023/24.


4) Postgraduate ITT new entrants by subject, training route and degree class

Filename: table_4_route_subject_by_degree.csv
Geographic levels: National
Time period: 2019/20 to 2023/24
Content summary: This national level table contains the number of postgraduate new entrants for each ITT route and subject by degree class. The data in this table covers 2019/20 (revised), 2020/21 (revised), 2021/22 (revised), 2022/23 (revised) and 2023/24 (provisional).

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name                         |  Variable description
------------------------------------  |  -------------------------------------------
first_class_degree                    |  First class degree
first_class_degree_percentage         |  First class degree percentage
itt_route                             |  ITT route
itt_subject                           |  ITT subject
lower_second_class_degree             |  Lower second class degree
lower_second_class_degree_percentage  |  Lower second class degree percentage
other_degree                          |  Other degree
other_degree_percentage               |  Other degree percentage
total_with_known_degree               |  Total postgraduates with known degree class
upper_second_class_degree             |  Upper second class degree
upper_second_class_degree_percentage  |  Upper second class degree percentage

Footnotes:

1. STEM Subjects are Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Mathematics and Physics.
2. Business studies: includes economics
3. Design & Technology: includes food technology and engineering.
4. Other: includes media and communication studies, social studies, and psychology.
5. Physical Education: includes dance.
6. Subject: The subject given here is ITT subject and may not be the same as the subject of the undergraduate degree held.
7. Data was extracted on 21 November 2023.
8. Figures for 2023/24 are provisional and are subject to change. Figures for 2022/23 and all previous years have been revised.
9. Troops to Teachers are excluded from all figures prior to 2021/22.
10. Total Ebacc: EBacc here includes English, mathematics, modern foreign languages, physics, biology, chemistry, history, geography, computing and classics. Trainees on the 'PE with Ebacc' programme are not included.
11. Warning: percentages have been rounded and therefore may not sum to 100%.
12. Postgraduate Teaching Apprenticeship: The postgraduate teaching apprenticeship (PGTA) was introduced in 2018/19.
13. The 2022/23 revised and 2023/24 provisional data does not contain forecast trainees, this is due to a change in data collection methodology.
14. Degree Class: 2:1 includes undivided 2nd.
15. Total with known degree: excludes trainees whose degree classes are unknown, therefore please consider the impact of the number of unknowns when considering data trends.
16. Other degree class: includes international degrees which have different grading classes, degree classes below 2:2, and other. It excludes trainees whose degrees classed as not known or not applicable.
17. Schools direct salaried: includes salaried programmes i.e. Future Teaching Scholars Programme
18. Other contains Citizenship trainees. There were 40 Citizenship trainees in 2022/23 and 23 in 2023/24.


5) ITT new entrants by training route and trainee characteristics

Filename: table_5_route_characteristics.csv
Geographic levels: National
Time period: 2019/20 to 2023/24
Content summary: 
This national level table contains the number of both postgraduate and undergraduate new entrants for each ITT route by trainee characteristic (eg. age, gender, etc.). The data in this table covers 2019/20 (revised), 2020/21 (revised), 2021/22 (revised), 2022/23 (revised) and 2023/24 (provisional).

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name                      |  Variable description
---------------------------------  |  ------------------------------------
aged_25_to_29                      |  Aged 25 to 29
aged_25_to_29_percentage           |  Aged 25 to 29 percentage
aged_30_to_34                      |  Aged 30 to 34
aged_30_to_34_percentage           |  Aged 30 to 34 percentage
aged_35_to_39                      |  Aged 35 to 39
aged_35_to_39_percentage           |  Aged 35 to 39 percentage
aged_40_to_44                      |  Aged 40 to 44
aged_40_to_44_percentage           |  Aged 40 to 44 percentage
aged_45_to_49                      |  Aged 45 to 49
aged_45_to_49_percentage           |  Aged 45 to 49 percentage
aged_50_to_54                      |  Aged 50 to 54
aged_50_to_54_percentage           |  Aged 50 to 54 percentage
aged_55_and_over                   |  Aged 55 and over
aged_55_and_over_percentage        |  Aged over 55 percentage
aged_under_25                      |  Aged under 25
aged_under_25_percentage           |  Aged under 25 percentage
asian_ethnicity                    |  Asian ethnicity
asian_ethnicity_percentage         |  Asian ethnicity percentage
black_ethnicity                    |  Black ethnicity
black_ethnicity_percentage         |  Black ethnicity percentage
disability_declared                |  Disability declared
disability_declared_percentage     |  Disability declared percentage
eea_national                       |  EEA national
eea_national_percentage            |  EEA national percentage
female                             |  Female
female_percentage                  |  Female percentage
full_time                          |  Full-time
full_time_percentage               |  Full-time percentage
itt_route                          |  ITT route
known_sex                          |  Total with known sex
male                               |  Male
male_percentage                    |  Male percentage
mean_age                           |  Mean age
median_age                         |  Median age
mixed_ethnicity                    |  Mixed ethnicity
mixed_ethnicity_percentage         |  Mixed ethnicity percentage
no_disability_declared             |  No disability declared
no_disability_declared_percentage  |  No disability declared percentage
other_ethnicity                    |  Other ethnicity
other_ethnicity_percentage         |  Other ethnicity percentage
other_nationality                  |  Other nationality
other_nationality_percentage       |  Other nationality percentage
other_sex                          |  Other sex
other_sex_percentage               |  Other sex percentage
part_time                          |  Part-time
part_time_percentage               |  Part-time percentage
primary                            |  Primary
primary_female                     |  Primary female
primary_female_percentage          |  Primary female percentage
primary_known_sex                  |  Total primary with known sex
primary_male                       |  Primary male
primary_male_percentage            |  Primary male percentage
primary_other_sex                  |  Primary other sex
primary_other_sex_percentage       |  Primary other sex percentage
primary_percentage                 |  Primary percentage
secondary                          |  Secondary
secondary_female                   |  Secondary female
secondary_female_percentage        |  Secondary female percentage
secondary_known_sex                |  Total secondary with known sex
secondary_male                     |  Secondary male
secondary_male_percentage          |  Secondary male percentage
secondary_other_sex                |  Secondary other sex
secondary_other_sex_percentage     |  Secondary other sex percentage
secondary_percentage               |  Secondary percentage
total_known_disability             |  Total known disability
total_known_ethnicity              |  Total known ethnicity
total_known_nationality            |  Total with known nationality
total_new_entrants                 |  Total new entrants to ITT
total_new_entrants_percentage      |  Total new entrants to ITT percentage
uk_national                        |  UK national
uk_national_percentage             |  UK national percentage
unknown_ethnicity                  |  Unknown ethnicity
white_ethnicity                    |  White ethnicity
white_ethnicity_percentage         |  White ethnicity percentage

Footnotes:

1. EEA National: here relates to individuals with a European Union, European Economic Area or included in the single market- this includes Swiss nationality. The UK is not included in these figures.
2. Data was extracted on 21 November 2023.
3. Figures for 2023/24 are provisional and are subject to change. Figures for 2022/23 and all previous years have been revised.
4. Troops to Teachers are excluded from all figures prior to 2021/22.
5. Sex other: Sex was previously reported as gender. This has been updated as it was previously mislabelled. From 2021/22, trainees who chose not to provide data on sex have been included in an 'unknown' category. Prior to this they were included in 'other'.
6. Warning: percentages have been rounded and therefore may not sum to 100%.
7. Postgraduate Teaching Apprenticeship: The postgraduate teaching apprenticeship (PGTA) was introduced in 2018/19.
8. The 2022/23 revised and 2023/24 provisional data does not contain forecast trainees, this is due to a change in data collection methodology.
9. Undergraduate: The majority of undergraduate provision is offered by higher education institutions.
10. Full time: Includes a small number of trainees on abridged courses. Abridged courses are intensive full-time courses allowing trainees to achieve qualified teacher status in a shorter timeframe, typically two terms.
11. Age groups: are based on the ages of new entrants on the day of the census, 11 October 2023. Ages are rounded down to the nearest year, for example, a trainee aged 29.5 is placed in the 25-29 age group.
12. Disability Status: Data is based on known cases and exclude those where disability status is unknown, therefore please consider the impact of the number of unknowns when considering data trends.
13. Ethnicity: Data is based on known cases and exclude those where ethnicity is unknown or not declared, therefore please consider the impact of the number of unknowns when considering data trends.
14. Mean and median age: ages are calculated by rounding down the trainee age to the nearest year.
15. Teach First do not offer a part time training option.
16. Schools direct salaried: includes salaried programmes i.e. Future Teaching Scholars Programme
17. Other ethnicity includes Arab and Other ethnic background.
18. Proportions exclude trainees where information was not supplied, or where characteristics/information were reported as ‘unknown’.
19. For 2023/24 only, three providers submitted data with very high numbers of trainees with other sex. These have been recoded as unknown sex while we investigate this with providers.


6) Postgraduate ITT new entrants by ethnic background

Filename: table_6_route_ethnicity.csv
Geographic levels: National
Time period: 2019/20 to 2023/24
Content summary: 
This national level table contains the number of postgraduate new entrants for each ITT route by ethnic background. The data in this table covers 2019/20 (revised), 2020/21 (revised), 2021/22 (revised), 2022/23 (revised) and 2023/24 (provisional).

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name                   |  Variable description
------------------------------  |  -------------------------------------------------
ethnic_background               |  Ethnic background
ethnic_group                    |  Ethnic group
total_postgraduates             |  Postgraduate total new entrants to ITT
total_postgraduates_percentage  |  Postgraduate total new entrants to ITT percentage

Footnotes:

1. Data was extracted on 21 November 2023.
2. Figures for 2023/24 are provisional and are subject to change. Figures for 2022/23 and all previous years have been revised.
3. Troops to Teachers are excluded from all figures prior to 2021/22.
4. Warning: percentages have been rounded and therefore may not sum to 100%.
5. The 2022/23 revised and 2023/24 provisional data does not contain forecast trainees, this is due to a change in data collection methodology.
6. Ethnicity: Data is based on known cases and exclude those where ethnicity is unknown or not declared, therefore please consider the impact of the number of unknowns when considering data trends.
7. Other ethnicity includes Arab and Other ethnic background.
8. Proportions exclude trainees where information was not supplied, or where characteristics/information were reported as ‘unknown’.


7) ITT new entrants by course level and trainee characteristics time series

Filename: table_7_route_characteristic_time_series.csv
Geographic levels: National
Time period: 2015/16 to 2023/24
Content summary: This national level table contains the number of postgraduate and undergraduate new entrants to ITT by trainee characteristics (eg. age, gender, etc.) for 2015/16 to 2023/24 (provisional for 2023/24 and revised for previous years).

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name                                                |  Variable description
-----------------------------------------------------------  |  ----------------------------------------------------------
aged_25_to_29                                                |  Aged 25 to 29
aged_25_to_29_percentage                                     |  Aged 25 to 29 percentage
aged_30_to_34                                                |  Aged 30 to 34
aged_30_to_34_percentage                                     |  Aged 30 to 34 percentage
aged_35_to_39                                                |  Aged 35 to 39
aged_35_to_39_percentage                                     |  Aged 35 to 39 percentage
aged_40_to_44                                                |  Aged 40 to 44
aged_40_to_44_percentage                                     |  Aged 40 to 44 percentage
aged_45_to_49                                                |  Aged 45 to 49
aged_45_to_49_percentage                                     |  Aged 45 to 49 percentage
aged_50_to_54                                                |  Aged 50 to 54
aged_50_to_54_percentage                                     |  Aged 50 to 54 percentage
aged_55_and_over                                             |  Aged over 55
aged_55_and_over_percentage                                  |  Aged over 55 percentage
aged_under_25                                                |  Aged under 25
aged_under_25_percentage                                     |  Aged under 25 percentage
asian_ethnicity                                              |  Asian ethnicity
asian_ethnicity_percentage                                   |  Asian ethnicity percentage
black_ethnicity                                              |  Black ethnicity
black_ethnicity_percentage                                   |  Black ethnicity percentage
disability_declared                                          |  Disability declared
disability_declared_percentage                               |  Disability declared percentage
eea_national                                                 |  EEA national
eea_national_percentage                                      |  EEA national percentage
first_class_degree                                           |  First class degree
first_class_degree_percentage                                |  First class degree percentage
itt_level                                                    |  ITT level
lower_second_class_degree                                    |  Lower second class degree
lower_second_class_degree_percentage                         |  Lower second class degree percentage
mixed_ethnicity                                              |  Mixed ethnicity
mixed_ethnicity_percentage                                   |  Mixed ethnicity percentage
no_disability_declared                                       |  No disability declared
no_disability_declared_percentage                            |  No disability declared percentage
other_degree                                                 |  Other degree
other_degree_percentage                                      |  Other degree percentage
other_ethnicity                                              |  Other ethnicity
other_ethnicity_percentage                                   |  Other ethnicity percentage
other_nationality                                            |  Other nationality
other_nationality_percentage                                 |  Other nationality percentage
primary                                                      |  Primary
primary_female                                               |  Primary female
primary_female_percentage                                    |  Primary female percentage
primary_known_sex                                            |  Primary known sex
primary_male                                                 |  Primary male
primary_male_percentage                                      |  Primary male percentage
primary_other                                                |  Primary other
primary_other_percentage                                     |  Primary other percentage
secondary                                                    |  Secondary
secondary_female                                             |  Secondary female
secondary_female_percentage                                  |  Secondary female percentage
secondary_known_sex                                          |  Secondary known sex
secondary_male                                               |  Secondary male
secondary_male_percentage                                    |  Secondary male percentage
secondary_other                                              |  Secondary other
secondary_other_percentage                                   |  Secondary other percentage
total_known_degree                                           |  Total known degree
total_known_disability                                       |  Total known disability
total_known_ethnicity                                        |  Total known ethnicity
total_known_nationality                                      |  Total with known nationality
total_known_sex                                              |  Total known sex
uk_graduates_upper_second_class_degree_or_better_percentage  |  UK graduate upper second or higher class degree percentage
uk_national                                                  |  UK national
uk_national_percentage                                       |  UK national percentage
upper_second_class_degree                                    |  Upper second class degree
upper_second_class_degree_or_better                          |  Upper second or higher class degree
upper_second_class_degree_or_better_percentage               |  Upper second or higher class degree percentage
upper_second_class_degree_percentage                         |  Upper second class degree percentage
white_ethnicity                                              |  White ethnicity
white_ethnicity_percentage                                   |  White ethnicity percentage

Footnotes:

1. EEA National: here relates to individuals with a European Union, European Economic Area or included in the single market- this includes Swiss nationality. The UK is not included in these figures.
2. Data was extracted on 21 November 2023.
3. Figures for 2023/24 are provisional and are subject to change. Figures for 2022/23 and all previous years have been revised.
4. Troops to Teachers are excluded from all figures prior to 2021/22.
5. Warning: percentages have been rounded and therefore may not sum to 100%.
6. The 2022/23 revised and 2023/24 provisional data does not contain forecast trainees, this is due to a change in data collection methodology.
7. Undergraduate: The majority of undergraduate provision is offered by higher education institutions.
8. Degree Class: 2:1 includes undivided 2nd.
9. Other degree class: includes international degrees which have different grading classes, degree classes below 2:2, and other. It excludes trainees whose degrees classed as not known or not applicable.
10. Age groups: are based on the ages of new entrants on the day of the census, 11 October 2023. Ages are rounded down to the nearest year, for example, a trainee aged 29.5 is placed in the 25-29 age group.
11. Disability Status: Data is based on known cases and exclude those where disability status is unknown, therefore please consider the impact of the number of unknowns when considering data trends.
12. Ethnicity: Data is based on known cases and exclude those where ethnicity is unknown or not declared, therefore please consider the impact of the number of unknowns when considering data trends.
13. Prior to 2017/18, trainees who did not identify as Male or Female were reported as "Female". From 2017/18 onwards, they are not included as "Female".
14. Other ethnicity includes Arab and Other ethnic background.
15. Proportions exclude trainees where information was not supplied, or where characteristics/information were reported as ‘unknown’.
16. For 2023/24 only, three providers submitted data with very high numbers of trainees with other sex. These have been recoded as unknown sex while we investigate this with providers.


8) ITT new entrants by region and training route

Filename: table_8_route_region.csv
Geographic levels: National; Regional
Time period: 2019/20 to 2023/24
Content summary: This regional level table contains the number of both postgraduate and undergraduate new entrants for each ITT route by geographic region. The data in this table covers 2019/20 (revised), 2020/21 (revised), 2021/22 (revised), 2022/23 (revised) and 2023/24 (provisional).

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name       |  Variable description
------------------  |  -------------------------
itt_route           |  ITT route
total_new_entrants  |  Total new entrants to ITT

Footnotes:

1. Data was extracted on 21 November 2023.
2. Figures for 2023/24 are provisional and are subject to change. Figures for 2022/23 and all previous years have been revised.
3. Troops to Teachers are excluded from all figures prior to 2021/22.
4. Postgraduate Teaching Apprenticeship: The postgraduate teaching apprenticeship (PGTA) was introduced in 2018/19.
5. The 2022/23 revised and 2023/24 provisional data does not contain forecast trainees, this is due to a change in data collection methodology.
6. Undergraduate: The majority of undergraduate provision is offered by higher education institutions.
7. Government Office Region: Region is determined by the location of the provider, which is not necessarily where the trainee is located.
8. Schools direct salaried: includes salaried programmes i.e. Future Teaching Scholars Programme
9. Due to a change in how the provider is reported for High Potential ITT trainees, from 2021/22, all trainees are now located in London.


9) Early Years ITT new entrants by training route and trainee characteristics

Filename: table_9_early_years_itt.csv
Geographic levels: National
Time period: 2019/20 to 2023/24
Content summary: This national level table contains the number of both postgraduate and undergraduate new entrants to Early Years ITT courses by route and trainee characteristics (eg. age, gender, etc.). The data in this table covers 2019/20 (revised), 2020/21 (revised), 2021/22 (revised), 2022/23 (revised) and 2023/24 (provisional).

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name                      |  Variable description
---------------------------------  |  ---------------------------------
aged_25_and_over                   |  Aged 25 and over
aged_25_and_over_percentage        |  Aged 25 and over percentage
aged_under_25                      |  Aged under 25
aged_under_25_percentage           |  Aged under 25 percentage
asian_ethnicity                    |  Asian ethnicity
asian_ethnicity_percentage         |  Asian ethnicity percentage
black_ethnicity                    |  Black ethnicity
black_ethnicity_percentage         |  Black ethnicity percentage
disability_declared                |  Disability declared
disability_declared_percentage     |  Disability declared percentage
female                             |  Female
female_percentage                  |  Female percentage
itt_route                          |  ITT route
male                               |  Male
male_percentage                    |  Male percentage
mixed_ethnicity                    |  Mixed ethnicity
mixed_ethnicity_percentage         |  Mixed ethnicity percentage
no_disability_declared             |  No disability declared
no_disability_declared_percentage  |  No disability declared percentage
other_ethnicity                    |  Other ethnicity
other_ethnicity_percentage         |  Other ethnicity percentage
other_sex                          |  Other sex
other_sex_percentage               |  Other sex percentage
total_known_disability             |  Total known disability
total_known_ethnicity              |  Total known ethnicity
total_known_sex                    |  Total known sex
total_new_entrants                 |  Total new entrants to ITT
unknown_ethnicity                  |  Unknown ethnicity
white_ethnicity                    |  White ethnicity
white_ethnicity_percentage         |  White ethnicity percentage

Footnotes:

1. Data was extracted on 21 November 2023.
2. Figures for 2023/24 are provisional and are subject to change. Figures for 2022/23 and all previous years have been revised.
3. Troops to Teachers are excluded from all figures prior to 2021/22.
4. Sex other: Sex was previously reported as gender. This has been updated as it was previously mislabelled. From 2021/22, trainees who chose not to provide data on sex have been included in an 'unknown' category. Prior to this they were included in 'other'.
5. Warning: percentages have been rounded and therefore may not sum to 100%.
6. Age groups: are based on the ages of new entrants on the day of the census, 11 October 2023. Ages are rounded down to the nearest year, for example, a trainee aged 29.5 is placed in the 25-29 age group.
7. Disability Status: Data is based on known cases and exclude those where disability status is unknown, therefore please consider the impact of the number of unknowns when considering data trends.
8. Ethnicity: Data is based on known cases and exclude those where ethnicity is unknown or not declared, therefore please consider the impact of the number of unknowns when considering data trends.
9. Trainee characteristics for individual Early Year ITT routes are not reported due to low numbers.
10. Other ethnicity includes Arab and Other ethnic background.
11. For 2023/24 only, three providers submitted data with very high numbers of trainees with other sex. These have been recoded as unknown sex while we investigate this with providers.
12. Breakdown of EYITT new entrant data by ethnic group and disability status for 2023/24 will be published after this initial publication. This is due to issues with the quality of the data. We will be updating the publication to include EYITT ethnic group and disability status data once the issue is rectified.


10) ITT candidates by subject and candidate characteristics

Filename: table_10_candidates_subject_by_characteristics.csv
Geographic levels: National
Time period: 2022/23 to 2023/24
Content summary: This national level table contains the number of postgraduate candidates applying to ITT by subject and candidate characteristics. The data in this table covers courses that start in 2022/23 and 2023/24 (official statistics in development).

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name                                 |  Variable description
--------------------------------------------  |  ---------------------------------
age_grouping                                  |  Age group
ethnic_group                                  |  Ethnic group
in_cycle_acceptance_rate                      |  In-cycle acceptance rate
in_cycle_accepted_candidates                  |  In-cycle accepted candidates
itt_subject                                   |  ITT subject
nationality_group                             |  Nationality
num_accepted                                  |  Total accepted candidates
num_candidates                                |  Total candidates
perc_accepted_candidates_with_characteristic  |  Percentage of accepted candidates
sex                                           |  Sex

Footnotes:

1. These statistics are classified as official statistics in development, which is a temporary label for new statistics that are undergoing development and testing. They are provisional and subject to change.
2. Data was extracted on 17 November 2023.
3. High Potential ITT (HPITT) route is not included in this data.
4. Percentages have been rounded and therefore may not sum to 100%.
5. Total candidates: the total number of candidates that applied to postgraduate ITT for courses that start in the given time period.
6. Total accepted candidates: the total number of candidates who have accepted an offer to start ITT in the given cycle. This includes candidates who deferred an offer from a previous cycle. Withdrawn applications and deferrals into the next cycle have been excluded.
7. Percentage of accepted candidates: for each subject, the percentage of accepted candidates with a given characteristic (where that characteristic is known).
8. In-cycle acceptance rate: in-cycle accepted candidates / total candidates.
9. In-cycle accepted candidates: the total number of candidates who have accepted an offer to start ITT in the given cycle, regardless of whether they withdraw or defer afterwards. This excludes candidates who deferred an offer from a previous cycle.
10. The in-cycle acceptance total and the acceptance rate are not shown in cases where candidate numbers are fewer than 30. Where small numbers are present, the acceptance rate can be volatile and potentially misleading.
11. The sum of categories for a characteristic may not match the total due to some candidates not providing characteristics information.
12. Subject-level candidate totals will not sum to the total candidate number due to duplication caused by candidates applying for multiple subjects.
13. EBacc Subjects are English, Mathematics, Modern Foreign Languages, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, History, Geography, Computing and Classics.
14. Others includes media and communication studies, social studies, citizenship and psychology.
15. STEM Subjects are Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Mathematics and Physics.
16. EEA national relates to individuals from within the European Union, European Economic Area or those included in the single market - this includes Swiss nationality. The UK is not included in these figures.
17. Age groups are based on the ages of candidates on the last day of the recruitment cycle, for 2022/23: 3 October 2022 and for 2023/24: 2 October 2023. Ages are rounded down to the nearest year, for example, a trainee aged 29.5 is placed in the 25-29 age group.
18. Granular cross-tabulations of candidates by multiple characteristics are not available due to the risk of disclosure.


11) ITT candidates by subject and ITT route

Filename: table_11_candidates_subject_by_route.csv
Geographic levels: National
Time period: 2022/23 to 2023/24
Content summary: This national level table contains the number of postgraduate candidates applying to ITT by subject and ITT route. The data in this table covers courses that start in 2022/23 and 2023/24 (official statistics in development).

Variable names and descriptions for this file are provided below:

Variable name                      |  Variable description
---------------------------------  |  ----------------------------------------------
in_cycle_acceptance_rate           |  In-cycle acceptance rate
in_cycle_accepted_candidates       |  In-cycle accepted candidates
itt_route                          |  ITT route
itt_subject                        |  ITT subject
num_accepted                       |  Total accepted candidates
num_candidates                     |  Total candidates
perc_accepted_candidates_on_route  |  Percentage of accepted candidates on ITT route

Footnotes:

1. These statistics are classified as official statistics in development, which is a temporary label for new statistics that are undergoing development and testing. They are provisional and subject to change.
2. Data was extracted on 17 November 2023.
3. High Potential ITT (HPITT) route is not included in this data.
4. Percentages have been rounded and therefore may not sum to 100%.
5. Total candidates: the total number of candidates that applied to postgraduate ITT for courses that start in the given time period.
6. Total accepted candidates: the total number of candidates who have accepted an offer to start ITT in the given cycle. This includes candidates who deferred an offer from a previous cycle. Withdrawn applications and deferrals into the next cycle have been excluded.
7. Percentage of accepted candidates on ITT route: for each subject, the percentage of accepted candidates for a given route.
8. In-cycle acceptance rate: in-cycle accepted candidates / total candidates.
9. In-cycle accepted candidates: the total number of candidates who have accepted an offer to start ITT in the given cycle, regardless of whether they withdraw or defer afterwards. This excludes candidates who deferred an offer from a previous cycle.
10. The in-cycle acceptance total and the acceptance rate are not shown in cases where candidate numbers are fewer than 30. Where small numbers are present, the acceptance rate can be volatile and potentially misleading.
11. Subject-level candidate totals will not sum to the total candidate number due to duplication caused by candidates applying for multiple subjects.
12. EBacc Subjects are English, Mathematics, Modern Foreign Languages, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, History, Geography, Computing and Classics.
13. Others includes media and communication studies, social studies, citizenship and psychology.
14. STEM Subjects are Biology, Chemistry, Computing, Mathematics and Physics.
