Teacher Workforce Planning Advisory Group: initial teacher education intake figures 2021
- Published
- 4 March 2022
- Directorate
- Learning Directorate
- Topic
- Education
Provisional information received from universities on intakes to initial teacher education in 2021/22.
Student teacher intake figures
These tables shows provisional information received from universities on intakes to initial teacher education in 2021/22. This information is not official statistics but indicative figures provided by universities at the start of the academic session. The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) publishes the official data a year later.
Table 1 - initial teacher education: 2021 provisional student teacher intake
| Total |
|
|
| Initial teacher education |
Target |
Intake at October 2021 |
| Primary |
|
|
| U/G degree |
707 |
767 |
| U/G combined degree |
72 |
95 |
| Total |
779 |
862 |
|
|
|
|
| PGDE and other routes |
1155 |
1203 |
| Total |
1934 |
2065 |
| Secondary |
|
|
| U/G |
163 |
154 |
| U/G combined degree |
173 |
132 |
| Total |
336 |
286 |
| PGDE and other routes |
1800 |
1527 |
|
|
|
|
| Total primary and secondary |
2136 |
1813 |
| Total |
4070 |
3878 |
PGDE secondary and alternative route intake figures
Table 2 - initial teacher education: 2021 provisional PGDE and other routes student teacher intake
| 2021 |
PGDE and other routes |
|
| SFC target 2021 |
Subject |
2021 Intake |
| 112 |
Art |
117 |
| 142 |
Biology |
131 |
| 87 |
Business Education |
82 |
| 144 |
Chemistry |
91 |
| 47 |
Computing |
44 |
| 34 |
Drama |
36 |
| 221 |
English |
216 |
| 8 |
Gaelic |
6 |
| 61 |
Geography |
59 |
| 58 |
History |
60 |
| 129 |
Home Economics |
106 |
| 224 |
Maths |
172 |
| 122 |
Modern Languages |
85 |
| 62 |
Modern Studies |
67 |
| 49 |
Music |
44 |
| 48 |
Physical Education |
52 |
| 117 |
Physics |
59 |
| 8 |
Psychology |
8 |
| 42 |
Religious Education |
39 |
| 85 |
Technological Education |
53 |
| 1800 |
Secondary PGDE and other routes |
1527 |
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