Teacher Workforce Planning Advisory Group: initial teacher education intake figures 2025

Student teacher intake figures

These tables show provisional information received from universities on intakes to Initial Teacher Education programmes in 2025/26. 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.

Initial Teacher Education: 2025 provisional student teacher intake

Initial Teacher Education	Target	Intake October 2025	Intake v target
Primary school teaching
Undergraduate (U/G) degree	709	695	98%
U/G combined degree	68	63	93%
Total U/G	777	758	98%
Post-Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) and other routes	784	733	93%
Total primary	1,561	1,491	96%
Secondary school teaching
U/G	158	117	75%
U/G combined degree	178	150	84%
Total U/G	336	267	79%
PGDE and other routes	2,000	1,008	50%
Total secondary	2,336	1,275	55%
Total	3,897	2,766	71%

PGDE secondary intake figures

Initial Teacher Education: 2025 provisional PGDE and other routes student teacher intake
 

Subject	Scottish Funding Council (SFC) target 2025	2025 intake	Intake v target
Art	124	82	66%
Biology	163	67	41%
Business Education	96	68	71%
Chemistry	159	41	26%
Computing	52	31	60%
Drama	37	35	95%
English	248	152	61%
Gaelic	10	7	70%
Geography	68	34	50%
History	67	78	116%
Home Economics	138	37	27%
Maths	250	73	29%
Modern Languages	138	56	41%
Modern Studies	68	61	90%
Music	54	30	56%
Physical Education	52	57	110%
Physics	131	28	21%
Psychology	9	7	78%
Religious Education	55	32	58%
Technological Education	81	32	40%
Secondary PGDE and other routes	2,000	1,008	50%