Teacher Workforce Planning Advisory Group: initial teacher education intake figures 2023

Student teacher intake figures

These tables show provisional information received from universities on intakes to initial teacher education programmes in 2023 to 2024. This information is not official statistics, but indicative figures provided by universities at the start of the academic session. The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) publishes the official data a year later.

Table 1 - initial teacher education: 2023 provisional student teacher intake

Initial teacher education	Target	Intake in October 2023
Primary
U/G degree	707	686
U/G combined degree	72	74
Total	779	760
PGDE and other routes	955	1,043
Total primary	1,734	1,803
Secondary
U/G degree	158	113
U/G combined degree	178	126
Total	336	239
PGDE and other routes	2,000	1,002
Total secondary	2,336	1,241
Total	4,070	3,044

PGDE secondary  intake figures

Table 2 - initial teacher education: 2023 provisional PGDE and other routes student teacher intake

2023	PGDE and other routes
SFC target 2023	Subject	2023 intake
124	Art	73
163	Biology	94
96	Business Education	60
159	Chemistry	54
52	Computing	16
37	Drama	19
248	English	127
10	Gaelic	4
68	Geography	29
67	History	52
138	Home Economics	114
250	Maths	83
138	Modern Languages	46
68	Modern Studies	50
54	Music	19
52	Physical Education	64
131	Physics	38
9	Psychology	7
55	Religious Education	27
81	Technological Education	26
2,000	Secondary PGDE and other routes	1,002