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 East Anglia

For University of East Anglia 35 % of leavers travel 25km or less to their first job as NQT and 20 % travel more than 100km. The percentage of students staying within 25km of University of East Anglia is lower than the regional average.

University of Bedfordshire

For University of Bedfordshire 30 % 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 University of Bedfordshire is lower than the regional average.

University of Hertfordshire

For University of Hertfordshire 72 % 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 Hertfordshire is higher than the regional average.

University of Cambridge

For University of Cambridge 25 % of leavers travel 25km or less to their first job as NQT and 17 % travel more than 100km. The percentage of students staying within 25km of University of Cambridge is lower than the regional average.

Billericay Educational Consortium

For Billericay Educational Consortium 84 % 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 Billericay Educational Consortium is higher than the regional average.

Mid Essex Initial Teacher Training

For Mid Essex Initial Teacher Training 59 % 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 Mid Essex Initial Teacher Training is higher than the regional average.

Suffolk and Norfolk Primary SCITT

For Suffolk and Norfolk Primary SCITT 46 % 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 Suffolk and Norfolk Primary SCITT is lower than the regional average.

Essex Primary SCITT

For Essex Primary SCITT 53 % 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 Essex Primary SCITT is higher than the regional average.

Forest Independent Primary Collegiate SCITT

For Forest Independent Primary Collegiate SCITT 91 % 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 Forest Independent Primary Collegiate SCITT is higher than the regional average.

The Pilgrim Partnership School Centred Teacher Training

For The Pilgrim Partnership School Centred Teacher Training 41 % 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 The Pilgrim Partnership School Centred Teacher Training is lower than the regional average.

Chiltern Training Group

For Chiltern Training Group 70 % 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 Chiltern Training Group is higher than the regional average.

North Essex Teacher Training (NETT)

For North Essex Teacher Training (NETT) 81 % 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 North Essex Teacher Training (NETT) is higher than the regional average.

Colchester Teacher Training Consortium

For Colchester Teacher Training Consortium 72 % 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 Colchester Teacher Training Consortium is higher than the regional average.

Suffolk and Norfolk Secondary SCITT

For Suffolk and Norfolk Secondary SCITT 17 % of leavers travel 25km or less to their first job as NQT and 12 % travel more than 100km. The percentage of students staying within 25km of Suffolk and Norfolk Secondary SCITT is lower than the regional average.

Essex and Thames Primary SCITT

For Essex and Thames Primary SCITT 84 % 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 Essex and Thames Primary SCITT is higher than the regional average.

The Shire Foundation

For The Shire Foundation 89 % 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 The Shire Foundation is higher than the regional average.

The Bedfordshire Schools Training Partnership

For The Bedfordshire Schools Training Partnership 65 % 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 The Bedfordshire Schools Training Partnership is higher than the regional average.

Essex Teacher Training

For Essex Teacher Training 20 % 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 Essex Teacher Training is lower than the regional average.

The Cambridge Partnership

For The Cambridge Partnership 46 % 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 The Cambridge Partnership is lower than the regional average.

Alban Federation

For Alban Federation 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 Alban Federation is higher than the regional average.

All providers in East of England

For All providers in East of England 47 % of leavers travel 25km or less to their first job as NQT and 10 % travel more than 100km.

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.↩
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.↩