The Department for Education has announced a 50% increase in its secondary drama teacher recruitment target for 2024/25.
The uplift in the government’s postgraduate initial teacher training target comes amid a 9.1% decrease across all subjects.
Updated annually, the DfE’s targets estimate the number of qualified teachers required for each secondary subject as well as general primary teaching.
To meet supply for secondary drama, the government aims to recruit 450 trainee teachers for 2024/25, up from 300 for 2023/24, and 290 for 2022/23.
Queries on the increase
A number of members of the education sector have publicly questioned if these recruitment target figures have been amended to improve the statistics available to the public.
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