The future ‘looks bleak’ for the Early Years Teacher (EYT) qualification as numbers taking up the training plummet and more providers drop the course.
The latest figures on take-up of Early Years Initial Teacher Training (EYITT), published by the Department for Education, reveal the number training to be an EYT has dropped by a third since last year.
This academic year (2018-19), 185 fewer people started the EYITT course than in 2017-18. There were 365 new entrants in 2018-19, as opposed to 550 the previous year.
It follows the abandonment of plans in the early years workforce strategy by the DfE in July to allow EYTs to lead nursery classes in maintained schools.
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