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Initial Teacher Training 2019/20 - Number of days spent in a placement school

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Initial Teacher Training 2019/20

Fields required from institutions in England

Number of days spent in a placement school


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Typefield
Short namePLMNTDYS
Description

This field describes the number of planned days to be spent at a particular placement school.

Applicable toEngland
Coverage

Student.Placement where applicable.

Notes

Only required where a student's first placement is known at the census date.

Training programmes are designed to provide trainee teachers with sufficient time being trained in schools, early years and/or further education settings to enable them to demonstrate that they have met all the standards for QTS. This means they would typically be structured to include at least the following periods of time to be spent in training in schools, early years or further education settings:

  • A four year undergraduate programme - 160 days (32 weeks)
  • A one, two or three year undergraduate programme - 120 days (24 weeks)
  • A secondary graduate (non-salaried) programme - 120 days (24 weeks)
  • A primary graduate (non-salaried) programme - 120 days (24 weeks)
  • A salaried programme - As determined by the training programme

Extract from current ITT Criteria located on gov.uk.

Note: If a trainee has been to more than five placements, they should return the five they were at for the longest period of time.

Quality rules
Quality rules relating to this entity are displayed here.
Reason required To allow the DfE to track where trainees are on their placements, for statistical analysis and research.
Part of
Field length3
Minimum occurrences1
Maximum occurrences1
Schema components
Element: PLMNTDYS
Data type: ThreeDigitType
OwnerDepartment for Education
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