AQW 3427/17-22


Ms Kellie Armstrong
Alliance Party
Strangford


Tabled Date: 10/03/2020
Answered On Date: 23/03/2020
Priority Written: No


Question:
To ask the Minister of Education for her assessment of the number of teachers that will need to be trained for the education sector in (i) 2020-21; and (ii) for 2021-23.


Answer:
Following consultation with the Department for the Economy (DfE), I have decided to retain intakes to Initial Teacher Education (ITE) courses at the current level for the 2020/21 academic year, as set out below.
Setting the level of ITE intakes for 2021/22 and 2022/23 will be taken following consideration of a number of factors, including DfE’s budget allocation for these years, statistical information provided from my Department’s Teacher Demand Model and wider policy considerations.
2020/21 APPROVED INTAKES
Phase
Primary
Post Primary
Route
BEd
PGCE
PGCE IME
PGCE Early Years
BEd
PGCE
PGCE IME
TOTALS
Stranmillis
95
-
-
15
50
-
-
160
St Mary’s
94*
-
20
-
50
-
-
164
QUB
-
-
-
-
-
134
4
138
UU
-
33
-
-
-
80
4
117
Total by route
189
33
20
15
100
214
8
579
Totals by phase
257
322
579
* St Mary’s University College BEd primary intake figure includes 18 Irishmedium places which will give an overall primary Irish-medium intake of 38.