§ Mr. Simsasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what proportion of postgratudate trainees who successfully completed initial one-year courses of teacher training in 1975, 1976 and 1977 obtained first appointments in primary education in each of these years.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonInformation is not yet available for those who successfully completed training in 1977. The percentage of postgraduate trainees who successfully completed initial one-year courses of teacher training in 1975 and 1976 who were in full-time appointments in maintained primary—including nursery—schools in England and Wales on 31st March in the year following completion of their initial teacher training was 10.6 per cent. and 6.4 per cent., respectively. These percentages do not include any teachers who had taken up appointments in primary schools but had left by the 31st March following the completion of their training.
§ Mr. Simsasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many graduates successfully completed one-year courses of teacher training in each of the years 1975, 1976 and 1977.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonThe number of graduates successfully completing one-year postgraduate courses of initial teacher training in colleges, polytechnics and university departments of education in England and Wales in 1975, 1976 and36W 1977 were 8,686, 9,304 and 8,916, respectively.