The Department for Education statistics on Initial Teacher Training: trainee number census 2017-2018, show that there were 595 students enrolling on EYITT courses, 25 fewer than last year. This is well short of the Government’s 2,400 target.
However, the statistics show the number of primary teacher trainees rose by 14 per cent, up from 11,290 in 2016-17 to 12,905 in 2017-18.
It is the third year that the number of students on EYITT courses has fallen, based on the data available.
The only year the Government came close to meeting its 2,400 target was 2013-14 (2,327 recruits). In 2014-15, the number of new starters fell to 860. There is no available data for 2015-16. The reason the DfE gave Nursery World for this omission is that the data collected was not considered sufficiently robust.
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