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Data Provider: Welsh Government Accredited Official Statistics First years on secondary school ITE courses in Wales by subject and year
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CoverageFor data between 2008/09 and 2012/13, students in the Open University in Wales are identified as students at the Open University who are funded by the Higher Education Funding Council. Between 2013/14 and 2019/20, they are identified as Welsh domiciled students studying at the Open University. From 2020/21, they are counted as students registered at the Welsh national centre of the Open University.[Filtered]
[Collapse]SexTotal persons includes those of indeterminate and unknown sex from 2007/08, and those categorised as \'Other\' from 2012/13. <br /> [Filtered]
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Sex 1[Filter]
[Collapse]Degree TypePostgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) or First Degree leading to Qualified Teaching Status[Filtered]
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Degree Type 1[Filtered]
[Collapse]Year of study[Filtered]
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Year of study 1[Filtered]
[Collapse]Welsh MediumWhether the course enables the student to teach bilingually<br /> [Filtered]
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Welsh Medium 1[Filter]
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Year[Filtered]
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Subject 1
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[Collapse]All453520353010.Data item not applicable5
AllGeneral Science5555105.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable
Biology.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable
Chemistry.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable
Physics.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable
Mathematics25151010155.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable
DT510.Data item not applicable10105.Data item not applicable5
IT.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable
Art.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable
Business.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable
Drama.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable
English.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable
Geography.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable
History.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable
Modern Languages.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable
Music55.Data item not applicable5.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable
PE.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable
RE.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable
Welsh.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable5.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable.Data item not applicable

Metadata

Title

First years on ITE courses in Wales by subject

Last update

25th May 2023 25th May 2023

Next update

May 2024

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Higher education student record, Higher Education Statistics Agency

Contact email

HigherEducationAndStudentFinance.Stats@gov.wales

Designation

National Statistics

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

England and Wales

Languages covered

English and Welsh

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

Statistical quality

Care should be taken when comparing data on all students over time since courses lengths can vary. For example, many previously 4 year first degree courses are now 3 year courses.

The underlying subject data for the Initial Teacher Education (ITE) course subjects has changed from 2019/20 due to a change from JACS subject coding to HECOS subject coding. More details on the HECOS subject coding can be found on the HESA webpage: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/documentation/hecos

General description

This table provides information about the subjects studied by students enrolled on Initial Teacher Training (ITT) courses leading to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) provided through Welsh higher education institutions.

To teach as a qualified teacher in a maintained school or non-maintained special school in Wales or England, students need to obtain QTS. Students can do this by either undertaking a first degree course which combines a degree - usually a BEd, BA or BSc - with QTS or by completing a PGCE course which leads to QTS. There are alternative employment-based routes to obtaining QTS but these are not covered in this bulletin.
Figures represent all year enrolments and have been rounded to the nearest 5. From 2007/08 the registration population will not include those students on sabbatical or writing-up.

Data collection and calculation

Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Student Record.
Contact: HigherEducationAndStudentFinance.Stats@gov.wales

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

The HESA standard registration population is a count of all enrolments within the reporting year 1 August to 31 July. Students who leave within 2 weeks of their start date, or anniversary of their start date, and are on a course of more than two weeks duration, are not included in the standard registration population. Dormant students, incoming visiting and exchange students from overseas and students studying for the whole of their programme of study outside of the UK are also excluded from this population.

Rounding applied

The presentation of figures in this table follows the principals of the HESA rounding strategy. The strategy is intended to prevent the disclosure of personal information about any individual. This strategy involves rounding all numbers to the nearest 5. A summary of this strategy is as follows:
• Counts of people are rounded to the nearest multiple of 5.

Revisions information

The Open University currently records all students on ITE courses in the Welsh national centre of the Open University as training to teach in Welsh. This resulted in an over-reporting of students training to teach bilingually in 2020/21. These figures have since been revised following work with HEFCW and the Open University. The Welsh government now obtain information regarding students training to teach bilingually directly from the Open University to provide amended figures annually.

Keywords

ITT ITE Initial Teacher Training Wales Trainee PGCE QTS Qualified Teacher Status Education

Name

EDUC0070