Certain secondary school subjects are failing to attract enough trainee teachers year-on-year, leading to huge shortfalls in the number of qualified teachers available.
The latest initial teacher training (ITT) figures show that the government has failed to recruit enough secondary school teachers for the sixth year in a row.
However, looking back across the last three years from 2016/17 to 2018/19 reveals the reality of the challenge faced by subjects such as maths, physics and design and technology, which consistently fail to hit their recruitment targets.
Each year the Teacher Supply Model (TSM) sets targets to reflect the changing future demand for teachers in England. It is these targets that the DfE has missed now for six years in a row.
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