Diversity in the teaching profession: Annual data report

3. Further Consideration

3.1 What data is included in this report?

Section 5 of this report presents new data published by the Universities and Colleges Admission Service (UCAS). It provides an insight into the numbers applying and accepted to postgraduate Initial Teacher Education (ITE) courses at universities.

Section 6 of this report presents data tables relating to the ethnicity of teachers working in schools in Scotland's local authorities and has been drawn from the annual Teacher Census. This report also contains information relating to students in their probationary year and on the employment of minority ethnic teachers in the year following probation between 2019 and 2023. The ethnicity of Scotland's teacher population by local authority is also included in this section.

Section 7 of this report presents background data tables relating to the ethnicity of Scotland’s population at the 2011 Scotland census and pupil ethnicity from 2018 to 2023.

3.2 HESA Entrant and Qualifiers data

Section 5 of last year's report ^[2] presented data tables relating to ITE programmes at Scottish Universities. The data captured six-year time series (between 2026/17 and 2021/22) for entrants and qualifiers which looked at ethnicity breakdowns and other relevant characteristics. These tables were drawn from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) student data. This data has not been included this year as it is unchanged from last year’s report as new HESA data is currently unavailable. HESA have been undergoing a sector-wide data transformation programme on how data is collected from universities.^[3] As such, data covering the 2022-23 academic year is expected to be finalised in the summer of 2024^[4].