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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
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
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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