These include applicant and application data and analysis for the admissions service for postgraduate teacher training courses.
Overall, in the 2015 UCAS Teacher Training cycle, applications were received from 47,200 applicants. In the 2014 cycle this figure was 54,100. However, as Scottish providers of postgraduate teacher training left the scheme at the end of the 2014 cycle, directly comparing these figures does not give an accurate view of demand. Instead, looking at applicants from England and Wales should be considered.
Nearly 28,000 people were accepted to teacher training programmes in England and Wales last year, up 6.5 per cent.
Applicants from England
There were 42,400 applicants from England in 2015, a decrease of 3,000 (-6.5 per cent) compared to 2014. However, of these applicants, 25,300 were placed in 2015 (an acceptance rate of 59.7 per cent) compared to 23,700 in 2014 (acceptance rate of 52.2 per cent), meaning that more applicants secured a place this year.
Applications to English and Welsh training providers
In terms of applications (choices), providers in England received 128,700 applications in the 2015 cycle. This is a decrease on the number received in 2014 (139,600) of -7.8 per cent (-10,900 applications). These training providers accepted 26,900 applicants in 2015, compared to 25,000 in 2014, and so, despite the decrease in applications, they placed 1,900 more applicants (+7.5 per cent).
For training providers in Wales in 2015, 24 per cent fewer applications (3,300) were received than in 2014 (4,400). Although they accepted a higher proportion of their applications in 2015 than they did in 2014, they placed 990 applicants by the end of the cycle, a decrease of 14.7 per cent (-170 applicants) compared to their acceptances in 2014 of 1,160.
Overall, the number of applicants placed to English or Welsh training providers saw a rise of 1,700 acceptances (+6.5 per cent) to 27,900.