Diversity in the teaching profession: annual data report 2025

3. Further consideration

3.1 What data is included in this report?

• Section 5 of this report presents data published by the Universities and Colleges Admission Service (UCAS). It provides an insight into the numbers applying and accepted to postgraduate Initial Teacher Education (ITE) courses at universities. Data for undergraduate ITE courses is not published at this level of detail.
• Section 6 of this report presents data tables relating to ITE programmes at Scottish Universities. The data captures 2022-23 and 2023-24 data for entrants and qualifiers which look at ethnicity breakdowns and other relevant characteristics. These tables have been drawn from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) student data. Data prior to 2022-23 has not been included due to a change in data collection by HESA.
• Section 7 of this report presents data tables relating to the ethnicity of teachers working in schools in Scotland's local authorities and has been drawn from the annual Teacher Census. This report also contains information relating to students in their probationary year and on the employment of minority ethnic teachers in the year following probation between 2019 and 2024. The ethnicity of Scotland's teacher population by local authority is also included in this section.
• Section 8 of this report presents background data tables relating to the ethnicity of Scotland’s population at the 2011 Scotland census and pupil ethnicity from 2018 to 2024.