Data on teacher experience - follow up

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Dear Department for Education,

I write as a follow up to my FoI request of last year regarding data on teacher experience (FOI0040222).

In that request, Mr Neil Ross very kindly provided me with a data sheet for each school in England, showing the number of teachers in each school, broken by the number of years since gaining QTS. He was very kind and helped us to agree on a format that gave me the data I needed, whilst not disclosing any sensitive information.

The data he provided was a snapshot for November 2015. I write now to ask for the same data, but for November 2014, Nov 2013, Nov 2012, Nov 2011 and Nov 10. Please can it follow the exact same format as the previous request.

If this is too time consuming for FoI purposes, please start with the November 10 snapshot.

Please do contact me with any questions.

Yours faithfully,

James Hirsch

ACCOUNT, Unmonitored, Department for Education

Dear Mr Brown

Thank you for your recent enquiry. A reply will be sent to you as soon as possible. For information; the departmental standard for correspondence received is that responses should be sent within 20 working days as you are requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Your correspondence has been allocated reference number 2017-0003694.

Thank you

Department for Education
Ministerial and Public Communications Division
Tel: 0370 000 2288

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Dear Mr Hirsch

I apologise for the delay in replying to your request while we considered
what we could release. In your follow-up you asked:

I write as a follow up to my FoI request of last year regarding data on
teacher experience (FOI0040222).

In that request, Mr Neil Ross very kindly provided me with a data sheet
for each school in England, showing the number of teachers in each school,
broken by the number of years since gaining QTS. He was very kind and
helped  us to agree on a format that gave me the data I needed, whilst not
disclosing any sensitive information.

The data he provided was a snapshot for November 2015. I write now to ask
for the same data, but for November 2014, Nov 2013, Nov 2012, Nov 2011 and
Nov 10. Please can it follow the exact same format as the previous
request.

If this is too time consuming for FoI purposes, please start with the
November 10 snapshot.

I have dealt with your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

The Department has decided that the public interest lies in disclosing the
information, for 2010 only, subject to the banding of the date of
qualification in 5 year bands and suppression of the output in line with
its usual rules when releasing school workforce information on individual
schools. This requires that any cells based on 3 or less are suppressed
unless the count is zero. 5 year bands have been applied to limit the
suppression applied compared to the 3 year band that you requested. A copy
of the information is attached.

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Yours sincerely

 

Neil Ross

Teachers and Teaching Statistics

Data Outputs Division

 

 

 

Dear Department for Education, and Mr Ross in particular,

Thank you very much for providing the 2010 data: this is extremely interesting.

One technical note. Your excel states: "SUPP: Values of less than 3 are suppressed unless zero" . However, from examining it, it looks as though all values below three, including zero, are shown as suppressed.

Would you be able to provide a copy which shows zero separately to the suppressed values?

Many thanks.

James Hirsch

MINISTERS, Department for Education

Dear Mr Hirsch

Thank you for your recent enquiry. A reply will be sent to you as soon as possible. For information; the departmental standard for correspondence received is that responses should be sent within 20 working days as you are requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Your correspondence has been allocated reference number 2017-0010291.

Thank you

Department for Education
Ministerial and Public Communications Division
Tel: 0370 000 2288

ACCOUNT, Unmonitored, Department for Education

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James, apologies for the delay in replying.

I have reproduced the data you requested and altered the suppression. It
now shows the value of zero, and suppresses the values of 1 and 2.

I hope this helps.

 

Neil Ross

 

Thank you very much, Neil. Much appreciated.

Best,
James Hirsch.