ITT recruitment
2016/17
Changes to the allocations approach
for postgraduate courses starting in
the 2016 to 2017 academic year
Greg Burke
Deputy Director, National College for Teaching and Leadership
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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 Controls
We 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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Taking Primary as an example…
Trainee need = 11,489
Remainder = 4,998
School-led fee minimum
recruitment level = 4,135
School Direct (salaried)
recruitment level = 1,849
Teach First allocation = 507
0
Scenario 1: Should HEIs recruit faster than
school led ITT ……..
Trainee need = 11,489
HEI recruitment is
stopped and
school-led fee
routes are allowed
to recruit up to
their minimum
level
HEI recruitment = 4,998
HEIs recruit
faster than
school-led fee
ITT routes
Additional school-led fee
recruitment = 1,135
Total school-led fee
recruitment = 4,135
Initial School-led fee
recruitment = 3,000
School Direct (salaried)
recruitment level =1,849
Teach First allocation=507
0
Scenario 2: if school led ITT recruits faster than
HEIs ……
Trainee need = 11,489
HEI initial recruitment =
3,000
Both HEIs and
school-led fee ITT
routes are allowed
to continue to
recruit until
overall
recruitment
reaches the
estimate of trainee
need
School-led fee ITT
routes recruit quicker
than HEIs and achieve
their minimum
recruitment level
HEI continued recruitment
= 1,000
Additional school-led fee
recruitment = 998
Total school-led fee
recruitment = 5,133
School-led fee recruitment
= 4,135
School Direct (salaried)
recruitment level =1,849
Teach First allocation = 507
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Hopefully that clears a few things up ….
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2016/17 Recruitment controls by subject
2015/16
2016/17 academic year
Designated ITT
Estimate of trainee Estimate of trainee
subject
need
need
Art & Design
Biology
Business Studies
Chemistry
Classics
Computing
Design &
Technology
Drama
English
Geography
History
Mathematics
Modern Foreign
Languages
Music
Other
Physical
Education
Physics
Primary
Religious
Education
Totals
Teach First
allocation
School Direct
(salaried)
recruitment level
School Direct fee
and SCITT minimum
recruitment level
794
1,178
313
1,053
69
723
633
1,178
252
1,053
69
723
0
190
30
60
0
30
14
80
10
95
2
51
261
316
60
393
6
215
1,279
435
2,253
778
816
2,581
1,033
347
2,253
778
816
3,103
15
0
430
110
77
308
77
11
444
46
67
256
273
200
819
242
424
847
1,514
481
1,342
1,514
399
938
143
20
0
79
42
13
390
143
203
1,227
1,055
11,245
999
1,055
11,489
0
50
507
25
86
1849
577
264
4135
650
544
30
28
106
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
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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
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
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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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Q&A
 Recruitment controls
Useful emails:
 ITT.Allocations@education.gsi.gov.uk
 HEIDMSsupport@texunatech.com
 DMSsupport@texunatech.com