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Teachers: Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what average proportion of full-time equivalent teaching staff teachers without qualified teacher status constitute for the top (a) 3% and (b) 10% of schools employing those teachers.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 29 Jan 2025
Target answer date: 3 Feb 2025
Answer: 3 Feb 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

29 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what average proportion of full-time equivalent teaching staff teachers without qualified teacher status constitute for the top (a) 3% and (b) 10% of schools employing those teachers.
3 Feb 2025
Target answer date
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3 Feb 2025
Answer published
Information on the school workforce is published in the ‘School Workforce in England’ statistical publication, which is available here: https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england. The next publication i...

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