That is the number required to meet the Teacher Training Agency’s target of a 20 per cent rise in the number of male entrants to primary teacher training next year.

Advertisements will target men, encouraging them to apply early, as part of a recruitment campaign to boost the total number of trainee teachers by 6 per cent to 32,000.

Fewer than one in six of the 169,000 primary teachers in England and Wales are men, and the Government wants more male teachers to be role models for boys.

Men accounted for only 1,589 out of the 12,412 primary teacher trainees last autumn.

“Buddy” schemes will be introduced in which male primary teachers will link up with male trainees to encourage them.

The Government wants all outstanding schools to commit themselves to teacher training. At present, only about a third of the country’s 1,000 beacon schools are offering placements.