HC Deb 21 December 1976 vol 923 cc107-8W
Mr. Bryan Davies

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many teachers who successfully completed training last summer were recorded, at the latest available date, as seeking teaching posts in the current school year.

Mr. Oakes

Preliminary indications, from surveys of the employment of newly qualified teachers being carried out on behalf of the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education and by the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers, suggest that between 8,000 and 9,000 were seeking teaching jobs in England and Wales in October. About 260 of the 5,000 qualifying from University Departments of Education were in this category.

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