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Teacher Workforce Planning Advisory Group: initial teacher education intake figures 2024

Published: 17 April 2025
Directorate: Education Reform Directorate
Topic: Education

Provisional information received from universities on intakes to initial teacher education in 2024/2025.

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Student teacher intake figures

These tables show provisional information received from universities on intakes to initial teacher education programmes in 2024/25. 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: 2024 provisional student teacher intake

Initial teacher education	Target	Intake in October 2024
Primary
U/G degree	707	662
U/G combined degree	72	72
Total	779	734
PGDE and other routes	955	1051
Total Primary	1,734	1785

Secondary
U/G	158	120
U/G combined degree	178	151
Total	336	271
PGDE and other routes	2,000	1,062
Total Secondary	2,336	1,333

Total	4,070	3,118

PGDE secondary intake figures

Table 2 - initial teacher education: 2024 provisional PGDE and other routes student teacher intake

2024	PGDE and other routes
SFC target 2024	Subject	2024 Intake
124	Art	83
163	Biology	88
96	Business Education	83
159	Chemistry	54
52	Computing	16
37	Drama	38
248	English	138
10	Gaelic	6
68	Geography	33
67	History	78
138	Home Economics	69
250	Maths	75
138	Modern Languages	55
68	Modern Studies	58
54	Music	25
52	Physical Education	59
131	Physics	42
9	Psychology	6
55	Religious Education	30
81	Technological Education	26

2,000	Secondary PGDE and other routes	1,062

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