New teacher training stats today show a massive divergence between shortage subjects and others.
Despite an overall increase in secondary trainees (although target missed for 7th year running), this mis-match is bad news
Stats: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2019-to-2020
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Despite an overall increase in secondary trainees (although target missed for 7th year running), this mis-match is bad news
Stats: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/initial-teacher-training-trainee-number-census-2019-to-2020
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Big deterioration for shortage subjects (% recruited vs target):
Physics - 43% (
from 47%)
Maths - 64% (
from 70%)
MFL - 65% (
from 88%)
Chemistry - 70% (
from 80%)








Increasing over-recruitment in other subjects:
Biology - 166% (
from 153%)
History - 127% (
from 101%)
Geography - 119% (
from 85%)
English - 110% (
from 111%)







