For each Provider which appears in the 2017/18 Initial Teacher Training (ITT) Census and which has more than 50 graduates appearing in the School Workforce Census (SWC) a map of Normal Ellipse Curves and a Cumulative Density Curve are included to detail how far the trainees travel to their first job. We only include providers with more than 50 graduates gaining employment over the timeframe as the distribution of distances travelled between graduating and starting first job as NQT will be more reliable for providers with a higher number of entries in the data.

The Normal Ellipse Maps

A method called Multivariate Normal Confidence Ellipses is used to visualise how far people are travelling from their ITT provider to their first NQT post. This is used to see within what distance trainees are likely to stay after they have finished their ITT.

Normal Ellipses assume the data is distributed according to a bivariate normal distribution1. Each ellipse is a boundary - it is expected that the percentage of trainees associated with that ellipse (e.g. 50% of trainees from that provider) will start their first role as NQT within that confidence ellipse. These ellipses become more accurate with higher volumes of data, which in this case is more trainees.2

The Confidence Ellipses may cover areas where no leaver has ever been (for example over the sea) due to the shape of the bivariate normal distribution being an ellipse.

There is a Normal Confidence Ellipse map for each individual provider with a red point at the location of the provider with size proportional to the number of NQTs who have graduated from the provider between 2010 and 2015 and a map of the 95% confidence intervals for all the providers in the region.

The Cumulative Density Curve

The cumulative density curve represents the proportion of people from that provider that have travelled that distance or less from leaving the provider to starting their first post as NQT.

Provider Level Analysis

University of Leicester

For University of Leicester 57 % of leavers travel 25km or less to their first job as NQT and 11 % travel more than 100km. The percentage of students staying within 25km of University of Leicester is higher than the regional average.

University of Northampton

For University of Northampton 47 % of leavers travel 25km or less to their first job as NQT and 8 % travel more than 100km. The percentage of students staying within 25km of University of Northampton is higher than the regional average.

University of Derby

For University of Derby 53 % of leavers travel 25km or less to their first job as NQT and 4 % travel more than 100km. The percentage of students staying within 25km of University of Derby is higher than the regional average.

University of Nottingham

For University of Nottingham 57 % of leavers travel 25km or less to their first job as NQT and 16 % travel more than 100km. The percentage of students staying within 25km of University of Nottingham is higher than the regional average.

Bishop Grosseteste University

For Bishop Grosseteste University 18 % of leavers travel 25km or less to their first job as NQT and 10 % travel more than 100km. The percentage of students staying within 25km of Bishop Grosseteste University is lower than the regional average.

Loughborough University

For Loughborough University 32 % of leavers travel 25km or less to their first job as NQT and 28 % travel more than 100km. The percentage of students staying within 25km of Loughborough University is lower than the regional average.

Nottingham Trent University

For Nottingham Trent University 51 % of leavers travel 25km or less to their first job as NQT and 13 % travel more than 100km. The percentage of students staying within 25km of Nottingham Trent University is higher than the regional average.

The Grand Union Training Partnership

For The Grand Union Training Partnership 62 % of leavers travel 25km or less to their first job as NQT and 5 % travel more than 100km. The percentage of students staying within 25km of The Grand Union Training Partnership is higher than the regional average.

Northampton Teacher Training Partnership

For Northampton Teacher Training Partnership 76 % of leavers travel 25km or less to their first job as NQT and 3 % travel more than 100km. The percentage of students staying within 25km of Northampton Teacher Training Partnership is higher than the regional average.

Leicester & Leicestershire SCITT

For Leicester & Leicestershire SCITT 84 % of leavers travel 25km or less to their first job as NQT and 6 % travel more than 100km. The percentage of students staying within 25km of Leicester & Leicestershire SCITT is higher than the regional average.

Leicestershire Secondary SCITT

For Leicestershire Secondary SCITT 82 % of leavers travel 25km or less to their first job as NQT and 2 % travel more than 100km. The percentage of students staying within 25km of Leicestershire Secondary SCITT is higher than the regional average.

George Spencer Academy SCITT

For George Spencer Academy SCITT 88 % of leavers travel 25km or less to their first job as NQT and 0 % travel more than 100km. The percentage of students staying within 25km of George Spencer Academy SCITT is higher than the regional average.

Educate Teacher Training

For Educate Teacher Training 3 % of leavers travel 25km or less to their first job as NQT and 69 % travel more than 100km. The percentage of students staying within 25km of Educate Teacher Training is lower than the regional average.

The Deepings SCITT

For The Deepings SCITT 21 % of leavers travel 25km or less to their first job as NQT and 28 % travel more than 100km. The percentage of students staying within 25km of The Deepings SCITT is lower than the regional average.

All providers in East Midlands

For All providers in East Midlands 45 % of leavers travel 25km or less to their first job as NQT and 12 % travel more than 100km.

  1. Due to an assumption being made about the data being normally distributed the confidence ellipses may not be a complete true reflection of the shape of the area where leavers travel post training. However, the size of the ellipses and their direction can provide meaningful comparison of distances travelled from each provider.↩

  2. The Ellipse’s two axes are in the directions of the eigenvectors of the covariance matrix of the bivariate normal distribution and the middle of the ellipse is the mean of the distribution. The half-length of the axes for each confidence level are the square root of the eigenvalues of the covariance matrix multiplied by the square root of the critical value of a Chi-Squared distribution with 2 degrees of freedom for alpha being 0.05 (1-0.95). We use the R package ggplot2 and the function stat_ellipse to calculate and draw the normal ellipse curves.↩