The Good Teacher Training Guide 2011 revealed that only 62 per cent of trainee teachers secured a job teaching in a state school six months after qualifying.
According to government statistics, there are almost half a million qualified teachers under the age of 60 who have either never taught in state schools or have left the teaching profession.
The report’s authors warned that the training process is inefficient, given that "there are more teachers of working age not in schools than there are in teaching".
The study ranks teacher training providers. It found that a school-based training consortium in Essex – the Billericay Educational Consortium – came top of 227 providers and outshone both Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
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