Question reference: S6W-20893
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: 29 August 2023
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Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 26 September 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government how many places on secondary school teacher training courses there were in 2022, and how many of these were filled, broken down by subject.
Answer
Tables published on the Scottish Government website https://www.gov.scot/publications/teacher-workforce-planning-advisory-group-initial-teacher-education-intake-figures-2022/ show provisional information received from universities on intakes to initial teacher education in 2022-23. These are not official statistics, but indicative figures provided by universities at the start of the academic session. The Higher Education Statistics Agency is due to publish the official data in January 2024