§ 36. Mr. Newensasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the latest available figure of the number of qualified teachers currently unemployed and the number anticipated at the commencement of the autumn term.
§ Mrs. Shirley WilliamsIn June 6,074 people were registered by the Department of Employment in England and Wales as unemployed and seeking posts as school teachers. Uncertainty about trends in wastage from and re-entry to the pro-134W fession make it impossible to estimate the likely increase in unemployment this autumn when more newly qualified teachers will be seeking posts.
§ 42. Mr. Hardyasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what was the number and proportion of full-time teachers who have left the profession during each of the last four years; and what was the average for the preceding 10 years.
§ Miss Margaret Jackson37,595 qualified teachers left full-time service in maintained nursery. primary and secondary schools in the year ending March 1974. These teachers represented 9.8 per cent. of all such teachers in service at March 1973. The provisional equivalent figures for year ending March 1975 was 42,526 and 10.5 per cent. respectively. Firm figures are not yet available for later years, but it is estimated that 33,000 teachers representing about 8 per cent. of the stock of teachers in March 1975 left during the year ending March 1976 and that the equivalent figures for the year ending March 1977 were 30,000 and 7 per cent. respectively. The average percentage leaving over the 10 years prior to 1974 was 10 per cent.