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Teachers: Qualifications

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the distribution is by (a) age and (b) length of service of teachers without qualified teacher status.

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 the distribution is by (a) age and (b) length of service of teachers without qualified teacher status.
3 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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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