§ Mr. Charles Irvingasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) what is the current ratio of numbers of teaching staff to other employees taking the educational system as a whole;
(2) what is the current ratio of the salary and wage bill for teaching staff to that of other employees taking the educational system as a whole.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonIn the education service as a whole covering independent schools and establishments as well as universities and grant-aided schools and establishments in England and Wales the latest available estimate is that, in June 1975, about half the full-time and part-time staff taken together were teachers. Up to date information is not collected in sufficient detail, particularly for the private sector, to enable a more precise ratio to be calculated for the education service as a whole.
Expenditure figures are available for only the local authority sector of the education service where the ratio of the salary and wage bill for teaching staff to that for other employees of local education authorities in England and Wales was 2.4:1 in the financial year 1974–75.
§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science in which years of teacher shortage some 20 per cent. of those who successfully completed their teacher training courses did not commonly take up teaching posts in the maintained sector.
§ Mr. Gerry FowlerIn 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973 and 1974 some 20 per cent. of those who successfully completed courses of initial teacher training had not taken up teaching posts in the maintained sector by the beginning of the next academic year.