Delivering research that has clear public benefit to Government and public bodies with the aim of improving the lives of the people of Wales.
Enabling the research community in Wales, and the UK, through data acquisition, data curation and data protection.
Building capacity and training the research community through education and best practices.
Using linked administrative data from the School Workforce Annual Census (SWAC) and the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), this Data Insight explores the degree backgrounds of recently qualified science teachers in Wales. In doing so, it assesses alignment between undergraduate degree subject specialism and teaching allocation. These patterns are also explored according to the sex of teachers, the education level they teach at, the language-medium they teach in, and the geography of their school.
This Data Insight provides an overview of the science teaching workforce in state-maintained secondary school in Wales as of 2021. Using administrative data from the School Workforce Annual Census (SWAC), it examines the proportion of the science teaching workforce who deliver individual subjects of science, biology, chemistry, and physics, and how they are distributed across sex, stage of education, language medium, and school geography. This provides evidence to inform discussions on workforce planning and distribution in compulsory and post-16 science education across Wales.
This study presents a large-scale analysis of science subject choices in Wales.
