How many teacher education places went unfilled in your subject?

Just PE, history and modern studies hit or exceeded their teacher education recruitment targets in Scotland this year for the most popular route into secondary teaching
6th March 2023, 6:17pm

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How many teacher education places went unfilled in your subject?

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How many teacher education places went unfilled in your subject?

Last year Tes Scotland exclusively revealed that almost 40 per cent of places went unfilled on the one-year route into secondary teaching this academic year.

Papers shared with Tes Scotland showed that primary teacher education courses hit or exceeded target this year but when it came to the secondary PGDE - the most common route into secondary teaching - the Scottish government aimed to recruit 2,000 teachers this academic year but universities only succeeded in recruiting 1,211.

We brought our readers those headline figures as well as the shortfall in student teachers for priority subjects, including chemistry, technological education, modern languages, physics, maths and computing.

Now figures for all 20 secondary subject areas have been published by the Scottish government.

They show that the only subjects to hit or exceed target this year were history, modern studies and PE; all other subjects fell short.

Here are the figures in full:

Teacher education: Scottish initial teacher education intake

 

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