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Student trainee teachers are failures

Thu, 03 Aug 2006
According to figures from the Training and Development Agency for Schools, over one in seven university and college students studying to become secondary school teachers in England are unable to successfully finish their course.

Over 15% of final year PGCE and trainee students failed to pass last year. As the PGCE course lasts only a year, this equate to the fact that 15 in every 100 students did not graduate, figures from the TDA support.

Over 11% of trainee students who are studying to graduate as primary school teachers also fail to graduate from their course.

Many academics have found this statistic shocking. Especially as this is the first time PGCE failure rates have been analysed. According to statistics, this proportion can exceed 20% at some colleges and universities.

The highest student failure rates for secondary school teachers were the following universities, Greenwich at 37.8%, Brunel at 33.2% and Goldsmiths at 26.7% of students.

For primary school teachers, Goldsmiths university had the highest dropout or failure rate at 33.7% of students, Brunel at 30% and Hertfordshire at 21.8% of students.