The deep concerns over teacher recruitment at secondary level remain after the latest initial teacher training figures revealed missed targets across all but two subjects.
The Teacher Supply Model (TSM) sets annual targets to reflect the changing future demand for teachers in England, but for the fifth year running the Department for Education (DfE) has failed to achieved these.
The TSM estimated that England needed 18,725 post-graduates to begin secondary teacher training in 2017/18 – 13,821 in EBacc subjects and 4,904 in non-EBacc subjects. However, only 14,990 have been recruited (11,590 and 3,400 respectively) according to the DfE’s Initial Teacher Training Census 2017/18, published last week.
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