Jess Phillips – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jess Phillips on 2016-02-01.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many places were allocated to each Troops to Teachers cohort.

Nick Gibb

Initially the Ministry of Defence’s resettlement contractor was responsible for recruiting trainees to the programme. Recruitment for the programme has been the responsibility of the University of Brighton.

For Cohort One, 293 applications were received and 41 trainees began the programme.

For Cohort Two, 196 applications were received and 52 trainees began the programme.

For Cohort Three, 62 applications were received and 51 trainees began the programme.