I am looking for stats about the number of teachers in UK holding postgraduate degrees.
I have googled it and did not find anything....
I have also searched OECD and eurostats with no luck....

Does anybody have any idea where to look for these data?

thanks a lot!

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what about http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/ - it has a 'contact us' section although a trawl through the various sections might provide the data you're looking for??

I managed to find some data about postgraduate degrees in general, but it's not what I wanted.....

I think I will try to modify what I want to write. Probably, I will say that given the fact that there is a growth in the numbers of people who study for a postgraduate degree, it seems that maybe there is a similar tendency among teachers.......

Would anyone who does a Postgraduate Certificate in Education to get their teaching qualification be classed as having a post graduate degree? this is probably a fairly high proprtion of teachers.

IoE might have some data if you contact them: http://www.ioe.ac.uk/

I doubt you'll find these numbers in the public domain.

I believe they are classed as having PG degree....but their percentage is not that high...I found somewhere (I can't remember where, because it was not what I was looking for) that teachers in primary education with a certificate in education are 6.2% and head teachers are 11.6%, which I believe are quite low numbers

would the teaching unions be able to help?

wow that's a lot lower than I'd have expected! Sorry can't help more on where to find the data.

How can I contact the unions? I mean, how can I search on google? Just "teachers' union"? (Sorry it may sound naive, but I am Greek and I don't know the terminology...) :p

I think they would be able to help......

As far as I know the biggest teaching unions are NUT (national union of teachers) and NASUWT (National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers).

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!