Intake targets for the controlled subjects in higher education institutions for academic

year 2009-10
3 March 2009

SFC/08/2009

http://www.sfc.ac.uk/information/info_circulars/sfc/2009/circulars_2009.html

This circular announces the academic year 2009-10 intake targets for the controlled subjects of medicine, dentistry,
nursing and midwifery pre-registration education, and initial teacher education.

FAO: Principals and directors of Scotland’s universities

Contact: Jennifer McGregor, Head of HE Teaching Funding, Funding, Tel: 0131 313 6629, email: jmcgregor@sfc.ac.uk
Recent SFC documents
13 February 2009
SFC/07/2009
Guidance on the audit requirements for Education Maintenance
Allowances (EMAs) for financial year 2008-09
6 February 2009
SFC/06/2009
2008-09 ‘in-year’ SUMs data collection for funding purposes

27 January 2009
SFC/05/2009
Funding support for Partnership Action for Continuing Employment
(PACE)

23 January 2009
SFC/04/2009
In-year management of student support funds: 2008-09
23 January 2009
SFC/03/2009
Allocation of variable element of the college sector knowledge transfer
grant

16 January 2009
SFC/02/2009
Outcome of the needs-led pilot project
9 January 2009
SFC/01/2009
ERASMUS fee compensation and fee anomalies for higher education
institutions in academic years 2007-08 and 2008-09

19 December 2008
SFC/57/2008
Review of higher education institutions’ strategic plan forecasts
2007-08 to 2010-11
19 December 2008
SFC/56/2008
Review of colleges’ financial forecast returns 2007-08 to 2010-11
Intake targets for the controlled subjects in higher education
institutions for academic year 2009-10
Purpose
1 I am writing to announce the academic year (AY) 2009-10 intake
targets for the controlled subjects of medicine, dentistry, nursing and
midwifery pre-registration education, and initial teacher education.
These are set out in the attached tables:

• Table 1: undergraduate medicine

• Table 2: undergraduate dentistry

• Table 3: nursing and midwifery pre-registration education

• Table 4: initial teacher education

Summary of intake targets for AY 2009-10
2 The table below summarises the intake targets for AY 2009-10:
2009-10 2008-09 Change from
intakes intakes 2008-09 to
2009-10

Undergraduate medicine 834 834 0

Undergraduate dentistry 170 165 +5

Nursing and midwifery 3,037 3,035 +2

pre-registration education

Initial teacher BEd Primary 1,200 957* +243

education

BEd Secondary 202 202 0

PGDE Primary 1,655 1,655 0

PGDE 1,105 1,005 +100

Secondary

Combined 195 195 0

degree

* revised intake

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3 We will provide details of allocations of funded student places and
the associated resources for the controlled subjects in our academic
year 2009-10 main grant letter, which we aim to issue on
31 March 2009.
Undergraduate medicine
4 We have maintained intake targets for medicine at the 2008-09 level
of 834. Details of intake targets are set out in Table 1.
Undergraduate dentistry
5 Since 2005-06, the Scottish Government, through NHS Education
for Scotland (NES), has provided funding for additional funded
student places. NES will continue to fund these cohorts as they enter
the second, third, fourth and fifth years of their studies. This will
allow the target to remain at 134 qualified dentists for 2009-10,
2010-11, 2011-12 and 2012-13.
6 For 2009-10 the Scottish Government, through NES, has agreed to
fund a further 16 additional funded student places for pre-clinical
dentistry. This will provide an intake target of 150 for Dundee and
Glasgow Universities combined, which in turn should provide an
output of 134 newly qualified dentists for 2013-14. Details of intake
targets are set out in Table 2.
Aberdeen Dental School
7 The Aberdeen Dental School admitted its first cohort of students in
2008-09. The course at the new dental school is a four-year graduate
entry programme.
8 In AY 2009-10 we will allocate 20 additional funded student places to
the University of Aberdeen for the Aberdeen Dental School. Details
of this intake are set out in Table 2.
Nursing and midwifery pre-registration education
9 In AY 2006-07 we started distributing funding on behalf of the
Scottish Government for nursing and midwifery pre-registration
education, which would previously have been funded under contracts
with higher education institutions (HEIs) and the then Scottish
Executive. We do not set intake targets for SFC-funded student
places in our Other Health and Welfare funding subject group.

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10 We assume that all students who entered the system prior to 2006-07
have now completed their studies and therefore there are no longer
students who are funded at the ‘contract price’ set by the Scottish
Government.
11 In setting intake targets for AY 2009-10, we have taken account of
the letter of guidance issued to the Council by the Scottish
Government in January 2009. We have attached a copy of this letter
for your information at Appendix A. The intake target for 2009-10 is
3,060 student places. Of this, 3,037 have been allocated to the six
institutions funded under the new arrangement. The remaining 23
places have been allocated to the Open University in Scotland which
provides nursing pre-registration programmes in remote and rural
areas under the terms of a contract with the Chief Nursing Officer
Directorate. Full details of intake targets are set out in Table 3.
Initial teacher education
12 In setting intake targets for AY 2009-10, we have taken account of
the letter of guidance issued to the Council by the Scottish
Government’s Teachers Division in January 2009. A copy of this
letter is attached for your information at Appendix B. This letter
notifies the Council of additional resources from the Scottish
Government for AY 2009-10 to fund increases for BEd Primary and
PGDE Secondary student places. Details of intake targets are set out
in Table 4.
13 An element for students withdrawing from courses has been included
within the allocated intakes and it is not necessary for HEIs to factor
in any additional element for this.
14 In line with the approach taken by the Scottish Government when
revised intakes were issued to institutions in August 2007, the
Government wishes to provide additional student places for BEd
Primary over and above an intake of 720 (baseline of 700 plus
three per cent). These places will be funded at the SFC unit of
resource. Additional funds for BEd Primary will be provided to
institutions on this basis in each academic session for the foreseeable
future. Details for 2009-10 are given in paragraphs 15 and 16 below.
Changes to intake targets
15 In response to the guidance from the Scottish Government, we have
set the AY 2009-10 intake targets for PGDE Primary and Secondary
courses and BEd Primary courses. This is in line with the revised

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 projections on requirements for teachers in the Scottish
Government’s teacher workforce planning exercise.
16 In order to meet the Government’s commitments to reduce class
sizes in primaries 1-3, BEd Primary places will increase to 1,200, and
it is anticipated that this will increase to 1,500 in AY 2010-11.
Part-time provision
17 We have allocated five places for part-time provision in AY 2009-10
to the University of Aberdeen.
18 In response to the guidance from the Scottish Government, we
would encourage all HEIs to continue to promote and support
flexible and innovative routes to teaching qualifications from the
funded student places awarded. We do not distinguish between
full-time and part-time within our funding model in order to allow
HEIs the flexibility to decide appropriate levels of different modes of
learning.
BEd Primary University of Stirling
19 In AY 2008-09 we allocated 50 BEd Primary places to the University
of Stirling for a four-year primary teaching degree course with a
science or modern language specialism. In AY 2009-10 we will again
allocate 50 new places to the University of Stirling for this purpose.
These places have been allocated from within the general increase in
BEd Primary places.
20 We have been advised of commitments to develop an early years
teaching qualification at the University of Stirling, and have therefore
allocated 25 new funded student places to the University for this
purpose. These places have been allocated from within the general
increase in BEd Primary places.
BEd Primary and PGDE Primary University of Aberdeen
21 In AY 2008-09 we allocated 20 BEd Primary and 20 PGDE Primary
places to the University of Aberdeen to address the mismatch
between the location of newly trained teachers and the areas where
vacancies are occurring. In AY 2009-10 we will continue to allocate
20 new BEd Primary places and 20 PGDE Primary places to the
University.

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MA in Primary Education with Teaching Qualification University of
Glasgow
22 In AY 2008-09 we allocated 20 additional places to the University of
Glasgow for the new Master of Arts in Primary Education with
Teaching Qualification at the Crichton Campus. In 2009-10 we will
allocate another intake of 20 to this course.
PGDE Primary funded student places for Gaelic
23 The guidance from the Scottish Government states that it does not
want to see any diminution in the positive action taken by the Council
in supporting Gaelic-medium provision. We have therefore
continued to allocate 25 of the PGDE Primary intakes for
AY 2009-10 to the Universities of Aberdeen (five places) and
Strathclyde (20 places) in support of Gaelic-medium provision. HEIs
are asked to consider the number of Gaelic-medium funded student
places from within the PGDE funded student places allocated by the
Scottish Government. We would expect HEIs to promote
Gaelic-medium provision on both a full-time and part-time basis.
PGDE Secondary University of Dundee
24 In 2008-09 we allocated five places to the University of Dundee for
distance learning for each of the subjects of modern languages,
physics and home economics from within the overall PGDE
Secondary target. The 2009-10 guidance has asked us to maintain this
and therefore for 2009-10 we have again allocated 15 FTEs to the
University of Dundee in AY 2009-10 for this purpose.
PGDE Secondary The Open University in Scotland
25 The guidance from the Scottish Government discusses the
importance of distance learning courses in PGDE. We have
therefore allocated 15 PGDE places to the OUS for PGDE Maths.
Allocation of intake targets among institutions
26 Once the places indicated above have been allocated for policy
priorities to specific HEIs, we have then allocated the remainder of
intakes among HEIs on the same basis as last year.

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PGDE Secondary priority subjects
27 In setting recruitment thresholds for PGDE Secondary subjects, the
Scottish Government assigns each of these to certain groups,
depending on demand for teachers in that subject.
28 The Scottish Government’s guidance for AY 2009-10 advises that
there is high and sustained demand for teachers of maths, English,
chemistry, technological education, modern languages, biology,
geography and history. We encourage HEIs to consult with local
authorities to discuss requirements for secondary subjects, and the
types of visiting specialist authorities would wish for, to ensure that
teacher supply meets local priorities. The outcome of such
discussions can indicate that it is appropriate to vary the intake in
PGDE subjects to accommodate local priorities.
29 HEIs are asked to note the categorisation list of secondary subjects
for AY 2009-10, which is set out in the attached letter of guidance
from the Scottish Government.
Further information
30 Further information on this circular can be obtained from Jennifer
McGregor, Head of HE Teaching Funding, Funding,
Tel: 0131 313 6629, email: jmcgregor@sfc.ac.uk

MTS Batho
Chief Executive

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 Table 1

Undergraduate medicine

University AY 2009-10 intake targets

Home/EU Overseas Total
Aberdeen 162 13 175
Dundee 143 11 154
Edinburgh 202 16 218
Glasgow 223 18 241
St Andrews 104 8 112
Total 834 66 900

We assume that each institution will have an intake of up to 7.5 per cent overseas
students.

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Dentistry

University AY 2009-10 intake targets

Home/EU Overseas Total
Aberdeen 20 0 20
Dundee 63 3 66
Glasgow 87 3 90
Total 170 6 176

We assume that Dundee and Glasgow Universities will each have an intake of up to three
overseas students.

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 Table 3

Nursing and midwifery pre-registration education

University AY 2009-10 intake target

Dundee 441
Edinburgh Napier 622
Glasgow Caledonian 521
Robert Gordon 298
Stirling 367
West of Scotland 788
Total 3,037

This does not include the Open University in Scotland intake of 23 which is funded by a
separate Scottish Government contract.

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Target intakes to initial teacher education, 2009-10 (with 2008-09 target figures for comparison) Table 4

BEd Music /
BEd BEd Combined Primary Secondary Combined
BEd PE Total
Institution Primary Technology Degree PGDE PGDE Degree
with Music
2008-09 2009-10 2008-09 2009-10 2008-09 2009-10 2008-09 2009-10 2008-09 2009-10 2008-09 2009-10 2008-09 2009-10 2008-09 2009-10

FTE FTE FTE FTE FTE FTE FTE FTE FTE FTE FTE FTE FTE FTE FTE FTE
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (17)

Aberdeen, University of 148 187 25 25 203 211 148 162 5 5 529 590
Dundee, University of 87 108 179 175 20 20 286 303
Edinburgh, University of 174 214 100 100 15 15 304 294 181 198 774 821
Glasgow, University of 179 222 33 33 310 307 156 172 25 25 703 759
Open University in Scotland 5 15 5 15
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama 29 29 29 29
Stirling, University of 50 75 115 115 165 190
Strathclyde, University of 212 264 513 521 434 472 30 30 1,189 1,287
West of Scotland, the University of 107 130 146 147 61 66 314 343
Crichton 20 20 20 20
Total 957 1,200 100 100 48 48 54 54 1,655 1,655 1,005 1,105 195 195 4,014 4,357

Change in intakes 2008-09 to 2009-10

Number 243 100 343

Percent 25% 0% 0% 0% 0% 10% 0% 9%
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Chief Nursing Officer Directorate

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Mark Batho
Chief Executive
Scottish Funding Council
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Edinburgh
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20 January 2009

Dear Mr Batho

NURSING AND MIDWIFERY PRE-REGISTRATION EDUCATION

This letter is to advise you of the Scottish Government Health Directorate's (SGHD)
proposals to the Scottish Funding Council (SFC) on nursing and midwifery pre-registration
education programmes for academic year 2009/10.

As in previous years, initial modelling for 2009/10 was based on NHS Boards projections
(which are required to be signed off by Chief Executives as broadly affordable within
Boards' approved financial plans). These projections suggested that although the demand
from employers is for a growing workforce, the rate of increase continues to be less than in
previous years. After applying the supply trends and undertaking modelling across a
number of scenarios, the proposed total intake numbers for 2009/10 discussed at the
Nursing and Midwifery Stakeholder Group and with the Cabinet Secretary for Health and
Wellbeing, is 3060.

The Nursing and Midwifery Workforce Planning Process is embedded within the
arrangements for workforce planning across NHS Scotland. Data and intelligence has been
gathered from individual NHS Boards' workforce plans and projections, and from
submissions made by non-NHS employers, to determine future demand for nurses and
midwives. That process models information and data collected on supply trends as well as
on future demand projections to produce recommended intake figures for each of the pre-
registration Branches of nursing. The modelling process is complex, comprising both
computerised methodologies as well as professional judgement.

This year as part of a collaborative process, drafts of the aggregated NHS Board nursing
workforce projections were circulated to a number of key individuals in order to share data
and intelligence for workforce planning purposes. Individuals included NHS Board HR and
Nursing Directors, Regional Workforce Directors, NHS Board workforce planning leads,
partnership organisations e.g. RCN, RCM, and UNISON as well as HEls etc. Updates on

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the modelling process were presented to the Student Nurse Recruitment and Retention
Delivery Group in order that the members were kept informed.

The target intake has been distributed by allocating 3037 places to the 6 Institutions funded
under this arrangement. Details of the intakes, by Institution and Branch, are set out in the
Annex to this letter. The remaining 23 places have been allocated to the Open University,
which provides pre-registration nursing programmes in remote and rura1 areas under the
terms of a contract with the Chief Nursing Officer Directorate.

All students will be funded at the SFC unit of teaching resource for Other Health and
Welfare students. Subject to discussions with SFC staff over the calculation of the fundable
student population and confirmation of the UTR for session 2009/10, we will transfer the
appropriate level of funding required for 2009/10. I will write to you again when that
information is available.

Where an Institution's intake exceeds SGHD recommended numbers, no additional funding

will be provided. In addition, where an Institution achieves a nursing and midwifery student
population that is lower than the SFC tolerance of 3% of the total fundable number, funding
may be clawed back from them. SGHD and SFC will liaise over any requirement to claw
back an element of the allocated funding.

This letter is copied to Principals of the 6 HEls, Heads of Schools of Nursing and Midwifery,
the Scottish Academic Heads Group and Gillian Mawdsley, Anne McVie, and Colin
Robertson, LLD.

Yours sincerely

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Dundee Glasgow Napier The Stirling University

University Caledonian University Robert University of the
University Gordon West of
University Scotland
Adult 332 349 420 208 268 609
Child 32 60 75 36
Learning 30 30
Disability
Mental 57 61 61 30 73 122
Health
Midwifery 20 21 36 24 26 57
Total 441 521 622 i
298 367 788
2009/10
intakes.

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Schools Directorate
Michael Kellet Head of Teachers Division

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Mr Mark Batho
Chief Executive
Scottish Funding Council
Donaldson House
97 Haymarket Terrace
EDINBURGH
EH125HD

January 2009

Dear Mark

TEACHER WORKFORCE PLANNING: INITIAL TEACHER EDUCATION (ITE)

1. The Council has already received strategic guidance from the Cabinet Secretary that
expressed the Government's commitment to the Curriculum for Excellence. It goes without
saying that this major policy shift will not be achieved unless we have sufficient numbers of
high quality teachers. This letter contains Scottish Government Ministers' guidance to the
Scottish Funding Council on ITE in academic session 2009-2010.

2. Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning established the
Teacher Employment Working Group in June to consider if any changes needed to be made
to teacher workforce planning in Scotland as the Scottish Government were concerned to
assess whether the current process for projecting the requirements for newly qualified
teachers was fit for purpose. The working group was asked to review the teacher workforce
planning process, taking into account relevant policy developments; to examine whether
improvements could be made to maximise the compatibility of student numbers and
employment opportunities for teachers; to consider the impact of the teacher induction
scheme; and to make recommendations for improvements in the process. The group
considered that the workforce planning process ata national level was robust but the group
did make 12 recommendations for the improvement of the planning system such as the need
for greater reconciliation between national and local planning. The Cabinet Secretary has
accepted all 12 'of the report's recommendations which In the longer term will be taken
forward with partners including the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) and the
General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS). One recommendation that relates directly to
this letter of guidance was that the teacher workforce planning group should revisit individual
secondary subject modelling and this has been undertaken for the 2009 exercise

3. There is a joint commitment set out in the concordat between the Scottish
Government and local government to reduce P1-P3 classes to a maximum of 18 The
concordat which has been signed with the COSLA on behalf of local government states:

"Improving the learning experience for children and young people by improving the fabric of
schools and nurseries; developing and delivering A Curriculum for Excellence; and, as
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quickly as is possible, reducing class sizes in P1 to P3 to a maximum of 18 and improving
early years provision with access to a teacher for every pre-school child. The provision of
additional capital allocation and specific arrangements· for local authorities to maintain
teacher numbers in the face of falling school rolls will allow significant progress on this policy
over the Spending Review period. Taking into account retirals, the capacity of the
universities to train new teachers, changing demographic trends, and the different
circumstances across authorities including accommodation pressures, it is recognised that
the pace of implementation of class size reduction will vary across authorities depending on
local circumstances and needs. Local government will be expected to show year on year
progress toward delivery of the class size reduction policy."

4. Funding has been provided for local authorities to maintain teacher numbers at the
2007 level (around 53,000) against a backdrop of falling school rolls. Theh.aadroom created
allows local authorities to make year on year progress to reduce class sizes in P1 to P3 to
18. The concordat recognises the capacity of universities to train teachers ahd the need to
transfer teacher resources from the secondary to the primary sector in order for local
authorities to use the headroom created by falling rolls to cut P1-P3 class sizes.

·5. The teacher workforce planning exercise this year was, as usual, undertaken in
consultation with SFC and other interested parties such as the GTCS, LAs, teacher unions
and teacher training providers through a series of meetings of the Teacher Workforce
Planning Advisory (TWPA) Group as to the guidance to be offered to SFC to assist in setting
the intakes to ITE in 2009-2010. While the setting of the actual intakes to courses of ITE is a
matter for SFC it is for the Council to ensure as far as possible through its funding allocations
and in other ways that the minimum teacher requirements and Ministers' other strategic
objectives are met.

Results of the exercise

6. The general structure of the modelling remains unchanged from last year apart from
the secondary subject modelling mentioned above. Annex A shows planned primary and
secondary student teacher training intakes split by PGDE and BEd.

7. In recent years the supply assumption has been set at 8% and the NJPA Group
considered that that this level should remain unchanged in both primary and secondary for
the 2009-2010 exercise ..

8. For a number of years target intakes to the BEd course have been held constant at
200 in secondary and 700 in primary as HEls prefer a degree of stability in these courses.
Primary BEds saw an increase last year to 950. The new class size commitment and indeed
the demographics of the profession continue to provide the opportunity to rebalance the mix
of BEds and PGDE's in the primary sector which has recently shifted by the previous
commitment to raise teacher numbers to 53,000 by 2007. We would therefore envisage the
primary BEd course to rise over the next few years before stabilising at an intake level of
1500. The secondary BEd plays a less prominent role in the provision of secondary
teachers and we would envisage the intake ·remaining at 200 a year.

9.. Increasing the BEd numbers does not address demographic needs or' class size
reduction policies in the short term due to the course length. There therefore continues to be
a need for substantial number of PGDE students. The Government commitment in
secondary is to maintain the overall balance between supply and demand and it is proposed
that the level of intake should reflect this aim.

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10. As illustrative course intakes for 2009 we would suggest:

Primary BEd 1,200.

Primary PGDE 1,650
Secondary BEd 200
Secondary PGDE 1,100

11. Changes in PGDE intake levels due to policy change and which are over a baseline of
400 in primary and 800 in secondary have been funded separately. It has been estimated
that 1,550 of the proposed intake to the PGDE courses in session 2009-2010 are above the
baseline levels. Subject to confirmation of unit of teaching resource for session 2009-2010
we will transfer funding of £8,749,750 to Lifelong Learning Directorate (LLD) for additional
places on PGDE courses.

12. The intakes to the primary BEds are also increased as a result of policy change. We
will transfer funding for the additional places on this course over and above an intake of 720
(baseline of 700 plus 3% threshold) in session 2009-2010 and subsequent years. Subject to
confirmation of unit of teaching resource for session 2009-2010 we will transfer funding of
£2,709,600 to L.LD for 480 additional places on BEd courses for that academic session. It is
also be necessary to fund students in the second and subsequent years and we will transfer
funds on the same basis to LLD for these years for the increases that took place in intakes
from session 2007-2008, taking into account retention.

'13. Widening access and diversity is important if the teaching profession is to draw on the
largest possible pool of potential teaching talent. Last year following Scottish Ministers
agreeing proposals to run a 4 year primary teaching degree course with a science or modern
foreign language specialism we recommended that from within the general increase in
4 year degree ITE courses that the Council allocate 50 places to courses of this nature in
2008 building up over 4 years to an intake of 200 places. We should clarify that this is an
intake of 50 students starting the course each year. We therefore recommend that from the
general increase in 4 year ITE courses that the Council allocate an intake of 50 places to
courses of this nature in 2009-10 and in subsequent years. There are also commitments to
develop an early years teaching qualification and we recommend that from within the general
increase in four year degree ITE courses that the Council allocate an intake of 25 places to
courses of this nature in 2009-10 and in subsequent years.

14. In last years exercise it was recommended that an additional 20 primary PGDE places
and an additional 20 primary BEd places should be allocated in the north of Scotland to help
redress the supply problems in the area. I understand that these additions are now an
integral part o(Aberdeen's allocation and will continue in the future with an intake of 20
additional places to both these courses 2009-10 and in subsequent years.

Priority secondary subjects

15. It is a strategic objective of Scottish Education Ministers that the teacher education
system should provide an adequate supply of secondary teachers to meet the needs of
schools in all subjects. The Council is asked to make sure that the number of student
teacher places funded helps meet this objective. As I indicated earlier we have looked again
at individual subject modelling. The TWPG Group however felt that there were problems in
providing advice on intakes in specific subjects. We have therefore continued with the
previous prioritisation system for this year. However individual subject modelling did show

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high and sustained demand for Maths, English, Chemistry, Technological Education, Modern
Languages, Biology, Geography and History teachers.

16. Distance learning courses in PGDE play an important role in widening access to initial
teacher education and this is recognised in the TEWG report where it is recommended that
LAs and HEls liaise more closely to identify appropriate opportunities. The Scottish
Government would like SFC to continue to assist in promoting provision in this area and
would not wish to see any diminution in the positive action taken by the Council in the
number of places allocated to the course which focuses on priority subjects at Dundee
University. The number of students is small within the overall secondary PGDE intake
nevertheless it helps boost numbers in subjects where local authorities are experiencing
difficulty in recruitment. The Open University Scotland continues to offer a PGDE Maths
course which they introduced in 2006/07. The number of students has been small but there
is evidence that the institution is able to attract students who would not otherwise undertake
teacher training. We would suggest that there would be merit in increasing the number of
Maths places to 15 this year with a further increase to 20 next year from within overall
secondary PGDE intakes.

17. Following the lack of demand for classics teachers the course has been run on the
basis of reaching agreement with the Scottish Council for Independent Schools (SCIS) that
the sector offer 4 probationer places in its probationer scheme for those with a single
qualification in classics. In addition the Scottish Government will offer the small number of
probationers there may be above 'this who have a dual qualification (e.g. classics and
English, classics and history), a classics place if possible or if not a place in their second
subject, on the publicly funded Teacher Induction Scheme. As in last year's guidance, SFC
are asked to advise that institutions only recruit to Classics should such an agreement be
reached again or if there is a clear identified need either from local authorities or
independent schools.

18. In previous years SFC has looked to institutions to consult LAs to ensure that local
priorities in secondary specialisms are met and encourages institutions to discuss
requirements for second,arypriority subjects. The outcome of such discussions can indicate
that it is appropriate to vary the intake in PGDE subjects to accommodate local priorities.
We propose that this should continue and to include reference to the types of visiting
specialists authorities would wish.

19. The Council is asked to adopt the revised categorisation of secondary subjects in
academic session 2009-2010 attached at Annex B.

Requirements for teachers for Catholic schools

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20. Scottish Ministers are concerned to ensure that the requirements for teachers for
Catholic schools are met and look·to the Council to seek to secure this through its funding
allocations. Annex C shows teachers in Roman Catholic schools collected through the 2007
Teacher Census.

21. As last year it is drawn to' the Council's attention that for a range of reasons all
teacher training providers may be involved in training teachers who could possibly teach in
Catholic schools. Suitably eligible students may apply to undertake a certificate by distance
learning through the Faculty of Education, University of Glasgow which would allow access
to teaching in Catholic schools..

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Requirements for teachers in Gaelic medium

22. The supply of teachers able to teach in the medilfm of Gaelic continues to be a priority
for Scottish Min,isters. The. Scottish Government would ,.like the Council to continue to assist
in promoting provision in this area. In particular, we would not wish to see ~ny diminution in
the positive aqtion taken by SFC in allocating extra PGDE places at Strathclyde and
.Aberdeen UnivEirsities specifically to support primary Gaelic medium provision and that all
training providers continue be encouraged to promote a. positive approach in relation to
applicants for a.1IITE courses by interviewing all whq would be able to teach in Gaelic
medium education. In addition, we would like to ask the Council to consider pursuing the
introduction of further avenues to increase the numbers of Gaelic medium teachers in both
the primary and secondary sectors while continuing to bear in mind that all students for ITE
must meet the same minimum academic entry requirements. Annex 0 shows teachers by
ability to teach through Gaelic medium collected through the 2007 Teacher Census.

23. This letter is copied to Principals of HEls, Heads of Faculties of Education and other
interested parties. Copy recipients should bear in mind that this letter is advice to SFC, to
assist in the setting of intakes to ITE courses. It is for SFC to decide on the final level of
student intakes to ITE and to allocate the share of the intake numbers it arrives at to
individual institutions and course programmes.

Yours sincerely

Michael Kellet
Head of Teachers Division

Victoria Quay, Edinburgh EH66QQ

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 Annex A

Planned Student Teacher Intakes

primary secondary
entry BEd PGDE BEd PGDE
2008- actual 925 1,743 174 1,085
2009 1250 1650 200 1,100
2010 1500 1,800 200 1,372
2011 1500 1,800 200 1,363
2012 1500 1,800 200 1,278
2013 1500 1,800 200 1,327
2014 1500 1,800 200 1,445
2015 1500 1,800 200 1,661
2016 1500 1,800 200 1,810
2009-2010 PRIORITY SUBJECTS Annex B

Advice to SFC
PGCE Secondary Subjects:
Maths 188
Gaelic 12
Biology
Business Education
Chemistry
English
Geography
History
Home Economics
Modern Languages
Physical Education (also has BEd)
Physics
Religious Education
Technological Ed (also has BEd) Group Total 750
Art
Classics
Computing
Drama
Modern Studies
Music (also has BEd) Group Total 150
 Annex C

Requirement for Roman Catholic Approved and Gaelic Medium Teachers

Roman Catholic approved

Teachers were asked in the staff census Primary
to identify whether they were approved to 6%
teach in Roman Catholic schools. While it all primary
5%
is not certain that this was completed fully, RC approval
the results were as follows. 4%

3%
Primary
2%
Teachers in RC schools 4,143
of which with approval 3,673 1%

Other teachers with approval 644 0%

19 22 25 28 31 34 37 40 43 46 49 52 55 58 61

Secondary
Teachers in RC schools 4,402 Secondary
of which with approval 2,592 6%

Other teachers with approval 887 5%

all secondary
RC approval
4%
Special
Teachers in RC schools 88 3%

of which with approval 59 2%

Other teachers with approval 239
1%

While the figures suggest reasonably 0%

19 22 25 28 31 34 37 40 43 46 49 52 55 58 61
sufficient numbers of teachers in primary
and special sector (though not necessarily Special
all within RC schools) there are fewer
7%
teachers in the secondary sector. The all special
6%
table overleaf shows the number of RC approval
secondary teachers by main subject 5%

taught. In most subjects there are a 4%

considerable proportion teaching who do 3%

not have approval. 2%

1%
Age profiles of those with approval show a 0%
similar distribution for primary and special 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 44 46 48 50 52 54 56 58 60 62
to the workforce as a whole, but in
secondary the peak arrives a few years
later, but is higher, than in general.
 Annex C

Teachers in Roman Catholic secondary schools, 2007

with approval other % with
Religious Education 174 22 89
Italian 10 2 87
PSE/Guidance 29 5 87
French 130 62 68
Geography 96 49 66
Biology 135 69 66

Modern Studies 83 45 65
Mathematics 342 205 63
Spanish 30 18 62
Physics 103 66 61
History 98 63 61

English 353 231 60

Chemistry 120 83 59
Learning Support 71 51 58
Business Education 112 86 57
Computing 82 65 56
Other Modern/Community Languages 43 34 56

Additional Support for Learning 16 13 55

German 1 1 50
Technical Education 120 121 50
Music 80 82 49
Science (general) 14 14 49

Home Economics 81 87 48
Physical Education 141 158 47
Art & Design 94 114 45
Drama 23 48 33

Other 36 29 55

All subjects 2626 1838 59

 Annex D

Requirement for Gaelic Medium Teachers

Gaelic medium
The census identified 263 Primary teachers
teachers currently teaching
25%
through the medium of Gaelic
all primary
(239 in 2006, 209 in 2005, 203 20% Gaelic medium
in 2004) and 448 able to do so
(399 in 2006, 379 in 2005, 365 15%
in 2004).
10%
The age profile of teachers
5%
currently teaching through the
medium of Gaelic is 0%
considerably younger than under 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60 or
average. Hence there should be 25 over
relatively less strain on supply
due to retirals. The latest Secondary teachers
vacancies survey identified five 25%
vacancies, three of which had all secondary
lasted for over three months. 20% Gaelic medium

15%

10%

5%

0%
under 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60 or
25 over
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