Briefing - Educating teachers of the future

10 December 2024

Russell Group universities train expert, resilient teachers for schools across the UK to grow the workforce and deliver opportunities for young people.

Russell Group universities have a long history of educating teachers, with 18 of our members collectively training 3,000, or 11% of teachers in England every year. They work with thousands of schools, both primary and secondary, to provide placements for their trainee teachers, and also to support and provide academic accreditation for school-based initial teacher education (ITE).

Russell Group universities train:

• 22% of all geography teachers
• 20% of all physics teachers
• 22% of all modern foreign language teachers

With access to an engaged talent pipeline of recent Russell Group graduates, equipped with subject-specialist knowledge, leadership and communication skills, our universities are well placed to help government achieve its goal of recruiting and training 6,500 new teachers.

Our universities are ready to work with the government and with Skills England to ensure ITE delivers high-quality, well-supported teachers into classrooms, who then remain in the profession for the long term.

Find out more in our latest briefing.