1. ITT recruitment 2016/17 1 Changes to the allocations approach for postgraduate courses starting in the 2016 to 2017 academic year Greg Burke Deputy Director, National College for Teaching and Leadership

2. Agenda  Welcome and Introduction  Changes to postgraduate allocations for AY 16/17  Recruitment Controls  Practicalities  Our message to schools and providers  What we have done to support this change  Q & A

3. What is changing?  New approach to postgraduate ITT recruitment for AY16/17 only –We are running this approach for one year –NCTL will manage recruitment at a national level –School Direct lead schools, School Centred ITT providers (SCITTs) and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) will be able to recruit as many trainees as they feel they need (subject to a limited number of controls)  Undergraduate allocation approach has not changed for 2016/17. We reviewed requests and allocated against our published criteria. Allocations published 14 October 2015.

4. Why the change?  We listened to your feedback that ITT allocations were difficult to understand and restrictive  To increase overall recruitment to ITT  To empower School Direct lead schools, SCITTs and HEIs and give greater flexibility in recruitment to meet local need

5. Recruitment Controls We will apply two specific controls, and will hold two in reserve. Controls will be applied:  By Subject: to stop recruitment in-year based on the latest recruitment data to avoid excessive over-recruitment in some subjects  By Route: a school-led* minimum recruitment level by subject. School-led provision will be able to expand beyond the minimum recruitment level if they recruit well If necessary, we may also apply the following controls:  By Organisation: to monitor recruitment by individual HEIs and SCITTs to prevent expanding their share of the market beyond a certain level  By Location: to monitor recruitment by region to maintain the regional balance of ITT and prevent significant geographical variation * School led ITT is defined as School Direct salaried, School Direct fee and SCITT core places

6. How the recruitment controls will work For each subject:  we start with the modelled estimate of trainee need. This will be used to stop recruitment, i.e. we will stop recruitment when we have enough trainees  Teach First have an allocation of places they can recruit to  School Direct salaried has a recruitment level that we expect School Direct lead schools to recruit up to (but not above).  School led fee routes (School Direct fee and SCITT core) have a minimum recruitment level  Teach First’s allocation, the School Direct salaried recruitment level and the School led fee minimum recruitment level are taken off the estimate of trainee need. The remainder is the level that HEIs could potentially recruit up to.  Scenario 1: Should HEIs recruit faster than school led ITT routes we will stop HEI recruitment when all the remaining places have been used. School led ITT would be allowed to continue to recruit up to its minimum recruitment level (taking overall ITT recruitment to the national subject level).  Scenario 2: If school led ITT recruits faster than HEIs and achieves its minimum recruitment level before HEIs recruit up all the remainder, both school led ITT and HEIs will be able to continue until overall the subject total is met 6

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8. Teach First allocation = 507 Taking Primary as an example… Trainee need = 11,489 0 School Direct (salaried) recruitment level = 1,849 School-led fee minimum recruitment level = 4,135 Remainder = 4,998

9. Scenario 1: Should HEIs recruit faster than school led ITT …….. Trainee need = 11,489 0 Teach First allocation=507 School Direct (salaried) recruitment level =1,849 Initial School-led fee recruitment = 3,000 HEI recruitment = 4,998 Additional school-led fee recruitment = 1,135 Total school-led fee recruitment = 4,135 HEIs recruit faster than school-led fee ITT routes HEI recruitment is stopped and school-led fee routes are allowed to recruit up to their minimum level

10. School-led fee recruitment = 4,135 Teach First allocation = 507 Scenario 2: if school led ITT recruits faster than HEIs …… Trainee need = 11,489 0 School Direct (salaried) recruitment level =1,849 Total school-led fee recruitment = 5,133 HEI initial recruitment = 3,000 Additional school-led fee recruitment = 998 HEI continued recruitment = 1,000 School-led fee ITT routes recruit quicker than HEIs and achieve their minimum recruitment level Both HEIs and school-led fee ITT routes are allowed to continue to recruit until overall recruitment reaches the estimate of trainee need

11. Hopefully that clears a few things up …. 11

12. 2016/17 Recruitment controls by subject Designated ITT subject 2015/162016/17 academic year Estimate of trainee need Teach First allocation School Direct (salaried) recruitment level School Direct fee and SCITT minimum recruitment level Art & Design 794 633014 261 Biology 1,178 19080 316 Business Studies 313 2523010 60 Chemistry 1,053 6095 393 Classics 69 02 6 Computing 723 3051 215 Design & Technology 1,279 1,0331577 273 Drama 435 347011 200 English 2,253 430444 819 Geography 778 11046 242 History 816 7767 424 Mathematics 2,581 3,103308256 847 Modern Foreign Languages 1,514 14379 390 Music 481 3992042 143 Other 1,342 938013 203 Physical Education 1,227 999025 577 Physics 1,055 5086 264 Primary 11,245 11,4895071849 4135 Religious Education 650 5443028 106 Totals 29,787 29,1762,0003,275 9,874 * School Direct fee and SCITT core places

13. Practicalities  UCAS –All lead schools, SCITTs and HEIs are required by NCTL to join the UCAS teacher training scheme –ALL applications must be made through UCAS –Information entered on UCAS MUST match the programme titles registered with NCTL –UTT application system opened 27 October  Keeping schools and providers informed –UCAS will publish data daily on ucas.com and we recommend that lead schools and providers review the daily recruitment data –NCTL will communicate regularly with ITT providers and SD lead schools to warn when we are approaching the recruitment control levels

14. Stopping recruitment When a recruitment level threshold has been reached we will stop recruitment by emailing the contact given at the time of registration on the NCTL DMS We will honour all offers (conditional and unconditional) that have been made up to the point where we stop recruitment The cost and liability of any trainees recruited to courses after recruitment has been frozen (i.e. offers made after we have instructed to stop recruiting) will be borne by the School Direct lead school or ITT provider. NCTL funding will not be provided for these additional places. 14

15. Our message to schools and ITT providers 15 UCAS data showed that in 2015/16 enough trainees were recruited to meet national need in PE and History in April, Primary in May and English in August – all other subjects have not recruited to national estimate of need. Therefore, though popular subjects may fill earlier, schools and providers should have plenty of time to recruit in all subjects. Schools and providers should: recruit as they would normally and use the greater flexibility to meet local need Plan recruitment effectively Pay attention to NCTL regular communications and factor into recruitment plans Stop recruiting if and when we instruct to do so

16. Supporting this change  We understand that the success of this approach relies heavily on good communication with schools, SCITTs and HEIs and a universal understanding of both the approach and how recruitment is progressing.  During October we held eight regional events, attended by approximately 250 School Direct lead school, SCITT and HEI representatives.  Each event allowed time to address all queries from the audience.  We will be hosting a WebEx shortly for those that were unable to attend one of the events and will be publishing a podcast of the presentation that will also address the most commonly asked questions. 16

17. Common themes raised at regional events  Viability concerns from schools, SCITTs and HEIs  Concerns about planning recruitment to ensure that interviews are not scheduled for after recruitment to a particular course is stopped.  Regional recruitment concerns  Flexibility around recruiting to new phases, subjects or routes 17

18. Responses  Encourage schools and providers to manage recruitment based on local need  Send regular communications providing current recruitment levels to help interview planning  Provide early warning messages leading up to recruitment levels being reached  Allow flexibility to recruit across subjects, routes and phases with the exception of HEIs being unable to create new cohorts in popular subjects (English, PE, history and primary) 18

19. Q & A  Recruitment controls Useful emails:  ITT.Allocations@education.gsi.gov.uk ITT.Allocations@education.gsi.gov.uk  HEIDMSsupport@texunatech.com HEIDMSsupport@texunatech.com  DMSsupport@texunatech.com DMSsupport@texunatech.com