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Teachers: Arts

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The Department sets national targets for initial teacher training (ITT) recruitment. Table 1 shows the number of ITT places in each of the last 10 years. This information is not available at regional level.Table 2 shows the number of places allocated to ITT providers (based on the region of the provider) for courses specialising in the requested subjects is shown in the table. This information is only available from 2003/04 onwards. The sum of the allocation targets may not be the same as sector level departmental targets.

Table 1: Initial teacher training, number of places¹+, 2000/01 to 2009/10, England
	2000/01	2001/02	2002/03	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06	2006/07	2007/08	2008/09	2009/10
Primary	13,100	12,500	14,000	15,200	16,300	15,800	15,300	14,800	17,460	18,050
Secondary	16,615	17,390	17,790	19,475	19,500	18,500	17,500	16,500	19,385	18,120
Secondary by subject:
Art	850	850	850	900	880	800	700	600	670	595
Citizenship	—	—	200	250	250	240	230	220	265	265
English (inc. Drama)	2,160	2,160	2,350	2,350	2,350	2,200	2,040	1,920	2,670	2,535
Geography	1,090	1,175	1,100	985	935	925	850	770	770	715
History	900	900	950	950	910	810	700	600	685	620
Mathematics	1,850	1,940	1,940	2,315	2,350	2,350	2,350	2,350	2,735	2,685
Modern foreign languages	2,050	2,050	2,050	2,050	2,050	1,900	1,790	1,670	1,670	1,525
Music	630	705	700	700	725	690	640	600	690	635
Other²	330	450	300	300	300	290	240	185	325	295
Physical education	1,200	1,200	1,200	1,500	1,500	1,450	1,310	1,180	1,570	1,380
Religious education	665	650	700	700	730	730	695	665	740	695
Science	2,690	2,810	2,850	3,225	3,225	3,225	3,225	3,225	3,615	3,405
Technology	2,000	2,150	2,500	2,850	2,895	2,890	2,730	2,515	2,980	2,770
of which³
Business Studies	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	760	730	680	600	590	505
Design and Technology	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1,085	1,060	1,010	930	1,195	1,150
Information and Communications Technology	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	1,050	1,100	1,040	985	1,195	1,115
Vocational subjects4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	400	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Margin of flexibility/Secondary reserve5	250	350	100	400	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
Primary and Secondary	29,715	29,890	31,790	34,675	35,800	34,300	32,800	31,300	36,845	36,170
¹ Number of places prior to 2008/09 include school centred ITT but excludes employment based routes ITT (EBITT). Targets for 2008/09 onwards include EBITT, but exclude Teach First.
² 'Other' includes classics, dance, economics, media, performing arts, social sciences and social studies. For 2008/09 onwards also includes diploma subjects.
³ Number of places for individual technology subjects is not available before 2004/05.
4 Places for vocational subjects in 2006/07 onwards are included with the allocation for related academic subject: Science includes places for applied science; design and technology includes both manufacturing and engineering; ICT includes applied ICT; business studies includes applied business; geography includes leisure and tourism; art includes applied art and other includes health and social care. In 2003/04 the margin of flexibility included places for a vocational subjects pilot. In 2004/05 places for vocational subjects were shown separately.
5 The margin of flexibility/secondary reserve constituted places that the TDA could allocate to any secondary subject, to support providers whose baselines would otherwise be below economic levels; to ensure the appropriate denominational balance and to help providers with a high proportion of places in shortage subjects and who therefore had particular uncertainty of income.
Source:
DCSF

Table 2: Initial teacher training, number of allocated places, 2003/04 to 2009/10, by Government office region
	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06	2006/07	2007/08	2008/09	2009/10¹
Primary and Secondary ITT courses
England	34,740	35,710	35,470	33,720	32,720	32,290	33,030
North East	1,620	1,690	1,740	1,570	1,510	1,530	1,540
North West	6,200	6,270	6,370	6,140	5,960	5,880	5,930
Yorkshire and the Humber	3,890	3,980	3,840	3,530	3,460	3,350	3,260
East Midlands	2,180	2,290	2,160	2,080	2,020	2,030	2,020
West Midlands	3,110	3,260	3,160	3,100	2,970	2,940	3,310
East of England	2,740	2,850	2,800	2,570	2,470	2,390	2,430
London	6,080	6,260	6,350	6,090	5,880	5,740	5,840
South East	4,570	4,650	4,640	4,530	4,460	4,470	4,720
South West	3,770	3,870	3,840	3,770	3,670	3,630	3,650
Non-Regional	590	600	570	340	340	340	350
Secondary ITT courses
England	19,480	19,420	19,570	18,390	17,870	17,430	17,300
North East	900	900	950	830	790	810	790
North West	3,490	3,390	3,470	3,380	3,280	3,210	3,170
Yorkshire and the Humber	2,130	2,100	2,040	1,840	1,840	1,740	1,640
East Midlands	1,150	1,140	1,050	1,020	1,010	1,020	950
West Midlands	1,910	1,900	1,880	1,820	1,750	1,740	1,810
East of England	1,480	1,510	1,490	1,340	1,270	1,190	1,140
London	3,220	3,250	3,360	3,220	3,100	2,930	2,940
South East	2,470	2,460	2,480	2,430	2,420	2,400	2,550
South West	2,220	2,270	2,350	2,250	2,140	2,140	2,070
Non-Regional	500	510	500	260	260	250	250
Secondary ITT courses specialising in Dance
England	50	90	60	60	60	60	60
North East	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
North West	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Yorkshire and the Humber	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
East Midlands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
West Midlands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
East of England	0	10	10	10	10	10	10
London	40	40	10	20	20	20	20
South East	0	20	20	20	10	10	10
South West	10	10	10	10	10	20	20
Non-Regional
Secondary ITT courses specialising in Drama
England	320	300	140	230	190	190	190
North East	10	0	0	0	0	0	0
North West	50	70	0	60	50	60	60
Yorkshire and the Humber	40	40	40	0	0	0	0
East Midlands	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
West Midlands	40	30	20	40	30	30	30
East of England	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
London	130	120	40	90	80	60	60
South East	20	20	20	20	10	10	10
South West	30	30	20	30	30	30	30
Non-Regional	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Secondary ITT courses specialising in Music
England	720	710	790	720	710	660	610
North East	40	40	30	20	20	20	20
North West	90	100	120	130	130	130	120
Yorkshire and the Humber	60	60	60	40	40	40	40
East Midlands	10	30	30	30	30	30	20
West Midlands	80	80	70	60	60	60	60
East of England	30	30	40	30	30	30	30
London	150	130	190	180	180	160	150
South East	100	100	110	110	100	90	100
South West	80	80	90	90	80	70	60
Non-Regional	80	60	60	30	30	30	30
Secondary ITT courses specialising in Art (also includes Applied Art)
England	990	940	820	700	600	580	540
North East	30	20	30	30	30	30	30
North West	210	210	170	150	130	130	100
Yorkshire and the Humber	40	30	30	0	0	0	0
East Midlands	10	10	10	0	0	0	0
West Midlands	90	80	70	60	50	50	50
East of England	90	80	70	60	50	50	50
London	240	240	210	190	160	150	150
South East	140	130	120	110	90	90	70
South West	150	140	120	110	90	90	80
Non-Regional	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Notes:
1. Number of allocated places include school centred ITT but excludes employment based ITT (EBITT). EBITT places are not allocated at subject level.
2. Places allocated in 2009/10 are provisional and subject to change.
3. Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10.
Source:
TDA

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

502 c1078-84W; 306032

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Arts Teachers

Contains statistics

Yes

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