§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science, how many teachers there are in (a) primary (b) secondary and (c) higher education in the Wolverhampton area; and how many he expects there to be in each of these three sectors in 1983.
§ Dr. BoysonIn January 1979 the Wolverhampton education authority employed 1,382 teachers in primary education—including nursery—and 1,561 in secondary education. In addition, 110 teachers were employed in both primary and secondary schools. Part-time teachers are included in these figures on the basis of their full-time equivalent 439W service. Figures of teachers in public-sector higher education are not available separately from the rest of public-sector further education: 892 full-time further education teachers were employed by the Wolverhampton education authority in January 1979. My Department does not collect figures of part-time further education teachers. The number of teachers in each sector who will be employed in 1983 will depend on decisions still to be taken by the authority in the light of the resources available to it.