Fast Track Fact Sheet (April
2008)
Numbers of Fast Track teachers
There are currently over 1900 Fast Track
teachers working in schools across England. 44% of these
applied from outside the teaching profession and began their Fast
Track Teaching career by doing a Fast Track PGCE at one of a number
of designated ITT institutions. 56% were already
qualified teachers when they were accepted onto Fast Track. Fast
Track Teaching has now been re-branded as a leadership development
programme for qualified teachers only.
National distribution of Fast Track teachers
Almost all Local Authorities in England
currently employ Fast Track teachers. There is also one Fast Track
teacher currently employed at a BFPO overseas establishment in
Germany.
Fast Track teachers are represented across
all nine Government Office Regions, with over one fifth of active
Fast Track teachers currently teaching in the London GOR.
Fast Track ‘Alumni’
202 Fast Track teachers have now been
promoted to senior leadership roles in schools and Local
Authorities – and have therefore ‘graduated’ from Fast Track
Teaching.
| Type of Senior Leadership
Post |
Number |
| Headteacher |
6 |
| Deputy headteacher |
51 |
| Assistant headteacher |
93 |
| Advanced Skills Teacher |
48 |
| Local authority advisory post |
4 |
| Total |
202 |
61% of current alumni are Primary teachers,
while 39% are Secondary teachers. Primary alumni
are mainly Deputy and Assistant Headteachers (81%), while almost
half of Secondary alumni are ASTs.
Fast Track ‘alumni’ posts have so far been
gained in 99 Local Authorities – almost two-thirds
of the Local Authorities in England.
Fast Track alumni are represented across all
nine Government Office Regions, with at least six Local Authorities
within each GOR employing former Fast Track teachers in positions
of senior leadership.
Fast Track teachers' progress towards leadership
Leadership Pathways
Over 450 Fast Track teachers are so far
known to have been accepted onto Leadership Pathways. Of
these, 89 teachers from the first cohort have
now completed the programme.
NPQH (National Professional Qualification for
Headship)
41 Fast Track teachers and Fast Track alumni
are now known to have completed NPQH (since 2004 a mandatory
qualification for all first-time headteachers in the maintained
sector). A further 75 are known to be
currently ‘in progress’ on the programme.
Teaching and Learning responsibility (TLR)
payments
Over half (59%) of active FTTs are recorded as
receiving TLR payments – 39% of Primary FTTs and
69% of Secondary FTTs. 24% of these are on TLR1
(the higher band) and the remaining 76% on TLR2.
Nationally, 19% of Primary teachers and 44% of Secondary teachers
are estimated as receiving TLR payments.
More information on Fast Track Teaching can be obtained from
http://www.ncsl.org.uk/programmes/fasttrack/
or at
http://www.cfbt.com/train/acceleratedleadership/fasttrackteaching.aspx
As at 2 May
2008
Survey of Teachers’ Pay 2007