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GRADUATES SHUN TEACHER TRAINING COURSES
Posted 6 Feb 2008New figures show applicants to teacher training in decline. Our analysis of applications for Postgraduate training courses in England starting in September 2008 show that, compared with the same date last year, applications have fallen overall by nearly nine per cent, with dramatic falls in Mathematics and English, Physics , ICT and Geography.
Crisis eases for secondary heads, but not in the primary sector
Posted 18 Jan 2008Secondary schools found recruiting a new head teacher easier last year. The level of re-advertisements was lower than at any time since the 2001/02 school year. Figures from this study show that the re-advertisement ratio was only 25% of advertisements during 2006/07, compared with 36% two years previously. However, in the primary sector the ratio was much higher for the fourth year in a row, at 37%, only one percentage point behind the record high of 2004/05..
About us
Education Data Surveys is an Oxford based company dedicated to providing research and information about the education sector.
We offer a range of products and services based on our extensive expertise in the sector and our unique databases that have tracked nationally advertised teaching vacancies in secondary schools since September 2005 and Leadership posts for over twenty years.
More recently we have designed databases to help clients track of statistics from a range of different sources.
In August 2007, we shipped over 45,000 of our new trainee teacher resource CDs, a new record. At the same time, our associated web site will also offer help and advice to trainee teachers during their courses.
Services
Education Data Surveys has extensive experience in the research and analysis of information about education. Although our main expertise is in the labour market for schools, we have conducted research into other areas including examination performance, initial teacher training in both England and Wales and school closure proposals.
Databases
Our databases contain unique information on the school labour market not available anywhere else.
Publications
We are responsible for a number of regular and one-off reports and commentaries based around our unique datasets and extensive expertise.