News and updates
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- Bulk recommend trainees for QTS or EYTS
- This service has replaced the TRA initial teacher training provider portal
- Editing data for trainees imported from HESA
- Trainee list can now be filtered by academic year
- Sign off deadline extended to 1 November 2022
- Deadline for first data submission to HESA is extended to 17 October 2022
- ‘Reports’ section is now available in Register to help check your data before signing it off
- Create draft trainee records in Register for the 2022 to 2023 academic year
- Update your initial teacher training (ITT) data through HESA from 18 to 29 July 2022
- Improvements to Register’s homepage and filters
- Funding information is now available on Register
- Register’s website address (URL) has changed
- HESA records now visible in Register for the April census update
- April HESA census update extended to Friday 13 May 2022
- DTTP switch off and transition to Register
- When you need to provide trainee start dates has changed
- Draft records are now separate from the list of registered records
- Support during the Christmas period
- The Department for Education (DfE) has published the provisional data for the 2021 initial teacher training (ITT) census
- You no longer need to provide a lead or employing school for trainees who are employed or funded privately
Bulk recommend trainees for QTS or EYTS
5 June 2023
You can now recommend multiple trainees at the same time for QTS or EYTS.
Read about how to bulk recommend trainees.
This service has replaced the TRA initial teacher training provider portal
2 June 2023
Higher education institutions (HEIs) must now use this service instead of the provider portal to:
- withdraw trainees who are no longer training for qualified teacher status (QTS) or early years teacher status (EYTS)
- defer trainees or reinstate them when they return to training - you can also do this through the Higher Education Statistics Authority (HESA) service if you used it to register the trainee
- recommend trainees for QTS or EYTS
Editing data for trainees imported from HESA
1 June 2023
Higher education institutions (HEIs) can now enable editing for trainees who were imported from HESA.
The edited trainee record will still be linked to the HESA service. If you update it later using the HESA service then any changes you’ve made in Register will be replaced by the data from HESA.
You will not be able to make any changes once the trainee has either withdrawn or been awarded QTS or EYTS.
Trainee list can now be filtered by academic year
11 January 2023
You can now filter your list of registered trainees to show only those training in a specific academic year.
Exported lists of trainees now include academic years.
Sign off deadline extended to 1 November 2022
25 October 2022
We’ve extended the deadline to sign off your new trainee data to Tuesday, 1 November 2022.
This is due to Register being briefly unavailable leading up to the deadline. If you have any questions or concerns, email becomingateacher@digital.education.gov.uk.
Deadline for first data submission to HESA is extended to 17 October 2022
28 September 2022
Due to the bank holiday on 19 September 2022, HESA have extended their deadline for higher education institutions (HEIs) to make their first data submission to the HESA data collection system.
The new deadline is now 17 October 2022. HEIs should have started submitting their trainee data to the HESA data collection system by this date to prepare for signing off trainee data at the end of October.
View important dates and deadlines for the 2022 to 2023 academic year.
‘Reports’ section is now available in Register to help check your data before signing it off
2 September 2022
To help accredited providers check their data before the sign off deadline on 31 October 2022, we’ve created a new ‘Reports’ section. You can access this from the main navigation bar under ‘Reports’.
Once you’ve registered your new trainees and their data is in Register, you’ll be able to use the ‘Reports’ section to export your new trainee data into a CSV. This will help you check your data is correct for trainees starting in the 2022 to 2023 academic year.
Create draft trainee records in Register for the 2022 to 2023 academic year
4 August 2022
SCITTs, and HEIs with trainees that do not go through HESA, can now start creating draft trainee records in Register for the 2022 to 2023 academic year. You can either register your trainees immediately or wait, and register them closer to the start of their course.
Applications from Apply for teacher training (Apply) with a ‘recruited’ status will also be imported into Register as draft records. Applications will import into Register every day at 4:00am. You should not need to manually duplicate applications from Apply into Register.
Update your initial teacher training (ITT) data through HESA from 18 to 29 July 2022
12 July 2022
If you’re a higher education institute (HEI), you can start updating your trainee data through HESA from 18 to 29 July.
You’ll first need to have your data decommitted in HESA. Email our support team who will decommit your data and let you know when it’s ready to update. Email us at becomingateacher@digital.education.gov.uk.
Improvements to Register’s homepage and filters
5 July 2022
We’ve improved our homepage designs and the way you can filter trainee records. On the homepage, under ‘Registered trainees’, you’ll see trainees are grouped by ‘training status’, which include:
- course not started yet (trainees who are registered but their course has not started)
- in training (all trainees currently doing training, excluding those on courses that have not started or are deferred)
- currently deferred
- awarded this year (all trainees awarded QTS or EYTS in the current academic year)
- incomplete records (registered trainees that are missing data)
Funding information is now available on Register
20 June 2022
If you have trainees that are eligible for funding, you’ll now be able to see funding information from the 2021 to 2022 academic year onwards on Register. You can access this from the main navigation bar under ‘Funding’.
Accredited providers will see funding paid and predicted to be paid for scholarships and bursaries. Lead schools will see funding paid and predicted to be paid for salary grants.
Register’s website address (URL) has changed
16 May 2022
The website address (URL) for Register has now changed to: www.register-trainee-teachers.service.gov.uk
You will be automatically redirected to the new URL if you use the old one, so you will not see any disruption to your work or the service.
HESA records now visible in Register for the April census update
9 May 2022
The import from HESA to Register is working normally. This means if you’re a Higher Education Institute (HEI), you can use Register to see data that you have updated and uploaded to HESA. This will allow you to complete your April census update by 13 May.
If you have updated any data about placements in HESA, you will not be able to see this in Register yet, but this will be available in future. If you identify any further issues with your data, contact becomingateacher@digital.education.gov.uk.
April HESA census update extended to Friday 13 May 2022
29 April 2022
The import from HESA to Register is ongoing. This means if you’re a Higher Education Institute (HEI) of Initial Teacher Training (ITT), you can update and upload data to HESA, but you cannot see this update on Register yet. We’ve extended the deadline for the April census update from 29 April to Friday 13 May.
We will update you when your data is visible to check on Register.
DTTP switch off and transition to Register
16 March 2022
At 5pm on 28 March 2022, DTTP will no longer be available. From this date, there will be no access to DTTP and you should use Register for all actions previously performed on DTTP.
There will be two days of downtime from 29 to 30 March when trainee data will not be available on either DTTP or Register. From 31 March, all trainee data from 2020 to 2021 onwards will be available in Register. Earlier trainees, who are not marked as having left, will also be available in Register.
When you need to provide trainee start dates has changed
20 January 2022
When registering a trainee, we were always asking when the trainee started, even if their course had not started. Now, we will only ask when the trainee started, after their course has started.
You’ll need to provide a start date before you can recommend a trainee for QTS or EYTS.
Draft records are now separate from the list of registered records
4 January 2022
Instead of having a single list with all of your records, there are now separate lists for draft and registered records.
Support during the Christmas period
21 December 2021
The support desk will close at 2pm on Friday 24 December 2021. It will open again on Tuesday 4 January 2022.
If you have an urgent problem during this time, you can still contact us at becomingateacher@digital.education.gov.uk.
The Department for Education (DfE) has published the provisional data for the 2021 initial teacher training (ITT) census
3 December 2021
DfE has published the provisional data for the ITT census for September and October 2021. The publication provides national and provider-level information about the numbers and characteristics of new entrants to initial teacher training in England in the academic year 2021 to 2022.
You no longer need to provide a lead or employing school for trainees who are employed or funded privately
1 September 2021
When you’re registering a trainee, we were asking for a lead or employing school in all cases. If a trainee is employed or funded privately, we do not need this information so we’ve added a ‘not applicable’ option to the lead and employing schools sections. You do not need to provide lead or employing schools if the trainee is employed or funded privately.