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 "id": "teacher-training-recruitment-england",
 "title": "Postgraduate teacher training recruitment against target, England",
 "category": "education",
 "summary": "New entrants to postgraduate initial teacher training in England as a percentage of the Department for Education's recruitment target, for primary, secondary and both together, each year since 2019/20, from its Initial Teacher Training Census.",
 "unit": "percent",
 "chart": "column",
 "volatile": false,
 "status": "Official statistics",
 "notes": [
  "New entrants to postgraduate initial teacher training in England each recruitment year as a percentage of the Department for Education's recruitment target, for primary, secondary and both together, as Table 1.2 of its Initial Teacher Training Census gives it. The percentage is the DfE's own: the postgraduates in scope of the target against the target its Teacher Workforce Model set.",
  "The target changes each year, so the percentage moves with the target as well as with the number of trainees. From 2025/26 the targets and the trainees in scope of them include self-funded trainees, which they left out before. The latest year is provisional and earlier years are revised; Troops to Teachers trainees are left out before 2021/22, and forecast trainees are not counted from 2021/22."
 ],
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  "licence_name": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.",
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-08T13:09:13Z",
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  "latest_period": "2025/26",
  "period_end": "2026-08-31",
  "entrants": {
   "Primary and secondary": {
    "2019/20": 28752.0,
    "2020/21": 33853.0,
    "2021/22": 29853.0,
    "2022/23": 22661.0,
    "2023/24": 21410.0,
    "2024/25": 23105.0,
    "2025/26": 26989.0
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   "Primary": {
    "2019/20": 12092.0,
    "2020/21": 14147.0,
    "2021/22": 14001.0,
    "2022/23": 10638.0,
    "2023/24": 8644.0,
    "2024/25": 8473.0,
    "2025/26": 9815.0
   },
   "Secondary": {
    "2019/20": 16660.0,
    "2020/21": 19706.0,
    "2021/22": 15852.0,
    "2022/23": 12023.0,
    "2023/24": 12766.0,
    "2024/25": 14632.0,
    "2025/26": 17174.0
   }
  },
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   "Primary and secondary": {
    "2019/20": 33090.0,
    "2020/21": 30952.0,
    "2021/22": 31030.0,
    "2022/23": 32600.0,
    "2023/24": 35540.0,
    "2024/25": 33355.0,
    "2025/26": 26920.0
   },
   "Primary": {
    "2019/20": 13003.0,
    "2020/21": 11467.0,
    "2021/22": 10800.0,
    "2022/23": 11655.0,
    "2023/24": 9180.0,
    "2024/25": 9400.0,
    "2025/26": 7650.0
   },
   "Secondary": {
    "2019/20": 20087.0,
    "2020/21": 19485.0,
    "2021/22": 20230.0,
    "2022/23": 20945.0,
    "2023/24": 26360.0,
    "2024/25": 23955.0,
    "2025/26": 19270.0
   }
  },
  "postgraduates": {
   "Primary and secondary": {
    "2019/20": 29420.0,
    "2020/21": 34963.0,
    "2021/22": 30283.0,
    "2022/23": 23606.0,
    "2023/24": 22676.0,
    "2024/25": 24108.0,
    "2025/26": 26989.0
   },
   "Primary": {
    "2019/20": 12364.0,
    "2020/21": 14597.0,
    "2021/22": 14192.0,
    "2022/23": 11010.0,
    "2023/24": 9125.0,
    "2024/25": 8853.0,
    "2025/26": 9815.0
   },
   "Secondary": {
    "2019/20": 17056.0,
    "2020/21": 20366.0,
    "2021/22": 16091.0,
    "2022/23": 12596.0,
    "2023/24": 13551.0,
    "2024/25": 15255.0,
    "2025/26": 17174.0
   }
  },
  "release": "Academic year 2025/26",
  "published": "2025-12-04"
 },
 "headline": {
  "label": "Recruitment target achieved, primary and secondary",
  "value": 100.0,
  "period": "2025/26",
  "note": "26,989 postgraduates in scope against a target of 26,920; provisional"
 },
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   "name": "Primary and secondary",
   "points": [
    {
     "x": "2019/20",
     "v": 87.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2020/21",
     "v": 109.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2021/22",
     "v": 96.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2022/23",
     "v": 70.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2023/24",
     "v": 60.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2024/25",
     "v": 69.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2025/26",
     "v": 100.0
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Primary",
   "points": [
    {
     "x": "2019/20",
     "v": 93.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2020/21",
     "v": 123.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2021/22",
     "v": 130.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2022/23",
     "v": 91.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2023/24",
     "v": 94.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2024/25",
     "v": 90.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2025/26",
     "v": 128.0
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "name": "Secondary",
   "points": [
    {
     "x": "2019/20",
     "v": 83.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2020/21",
     "v": 101.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2021/22",
     "v": 78.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2022/23",
     "v": 57.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2023/24",
     "v": 48.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2024/25",
     "v": 61.0
    },
    {
     "x": "2025/26",
     "v": 89.0
    }
   ]
  }
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}