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,

ITT recruitment 2016/17

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Changes to the allocations approach for postgraduate courses starting in the 2016 to 2017 academic year

Greg BurkeDeputy Director, National College for Teaching and Leadership

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

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.

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

Recruitment ControlsWe 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

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

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Feeling confused?

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Teach First allocation = 507

Taking Primary as an example…

Trainee need = 11,489

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School Direct (salaried) recruitment level = 1,849

School-led fee minimum recruitment level = 4,135

Remainder = 4,998

Scenario 1: Should HEIs recruit faster than school led ITT ……..

Trainee need = 11,489

0Teach 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

School-led fee recruitment = 4,135

Teach First allocation = 507

Scenario 2: if school led ITT recruits faster than HEIs ……

Trainee need = 11,489

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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

Hopefully that clears a few things up ….

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2016/17 Recruitment controls by subject

Designated ITT subject

2015/16 2016/17 academic year

Estimate of trainee need

Estimate of trainee need

Teach First allocation

School Direct (salaried)

recruitment level

School Direct fee and SCITT minimum

recruitment level

Art & Design 794 633 0 14 261

Biology 1,178 1,178 190 80 316

Business Studies 313 252 30 10 60

Chemistry 1,053 1,053 60 95 393

Classics 69 69 0 2 6

Computing 723 723 30 51 215Design & Technology 1,279 1,033 15 77 273

Drama 435 347 0 11 200

English 2,253 2,253 430 444 819

Geography 778 778 110 46 242

History 816 816 77 67 424

Mathematics 2,581 3,103 308 256 847

Modern Foreign Languages 1,514 1,514 143 79 390

Music 481 399 20 42 143

Other 1,342 938 0 13 203Physical Education 1,227 999 0 25 577

Physics 1,055 1,055 50 86 264

Primary 11,245 11,489 507 1849 4135Religious Education 650 544 30 28 106

Totals 29,787 29,176 2,000 3,275 9,874

* School Direct fee and SCITT core places

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

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.

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Our message to schools and ITT providers

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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

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.

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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

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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)

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Q & A

Recruitment controls

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