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More people will be training to be teachers in England this year than for 12 years, official figures reveal, but the shortage of secondary school trainees continues.
A total of 29,236 people have embarked on undergraduate or postgraduate training this autumn, according to the Teacher Training Agency.
More have registered for courses starting during the academic year, taking the total up to 31,261.
This is 7% more than last year - but leaves the government 1,005 people short of its target for the recruitment of trainee secondary school teachers.
Nevertheless, the chief executive of the agency, Ralph Tabberer, said the figures were "a tremendous achievement".
The total number of training registrations was the highest since at least 1989/90, the agency said, and had gone up for the third year in a row.
There are 14,476 people registered to train to be primary school teachers, up 10% on last year and several hundred above target.
And 16,785 have registered for secondary courses - a 5% rise, but 5.65% below the number of training places that were available.
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