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You asked for the “total number of teachers” who “qualified outside of Scotland” and are currently registered with GTC Scotland. As data extracted on 15 September 2025, there were 8373 registrants with GTC Scotland who completed the Qualified Outside of Scotland route to registration. This was out of a total of 80,234 registrants at the time or 10% of all registrants on the Register of Teachers.

You also asked for the “country or region of initial qualification” which we have provided in Table 1 below. Please note that this information is self-declared by an applicant at the time of application. It is not mandatory for the applicants to do so and is collected for statistical purposes. As such, there may be individuals who did not disclose their “country or region of initial qualification” and are not reflected in the information provided below.

Please see our response to your further questions below as an attachment accompanying this response.

Table 1: The self-declared Country of Teaching Qualification for registrants who completed the ‘Qualified Outside of Scotland’ route

You also asked for the “information on annual trends in registrations via the `Qualified Outside Scotland` route” which we have provided in Tables 2 and 3 below.

Tables 2 and 3 show the number of registration applications received through the qualified outside Scotland (QOS)route and the outcomes of all closed applications during that time. Please note that the information below is based on the Registration Year for GTC Scotland which runs from 1 April to 31 March of the following year.

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Please note, in Table 3, the increase in decisions where individuals chose not to register in 2024/25 was partially due to a data cleansing exercise, whereby older applications which had not progressed due to inaction of the applicant were closed.

Table 4 shows the top 10 country of qualification of QOS applicants where the application is fully assessed. The data is further broken down by the percentage of those applications where an offer of registration is made.

You may request a review of how we have dealt with this information request if you are dissatisfied with this response. This can be done by contacting us at informationgovernance@gtcs.org.uk, describing your original request and explaining the basis for your dissatisfaction. You have 40 working days from receipt of this response to submit a review request.

Once the review process has been completed, if you are still dissatisfied, you can apply to the Scottish Information Commissioner for a decision. See the Scottish Information Commissioner’s guidance on making an appeal for information about how to do this.