HC Deb 04 March 1986 vol 93 c113W
67. Mr. Holt

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will consider the reintroduction of technical schools for pupils aged 13 years and over.

Mr. Dunn

My right hon. Friend is always ready to consider statutory proposals and policy suggestions but has

Leavers* from maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools by age and subject of degree† England, year ending 31 March 1984 (provisional)
Age
Under 30 30–39 40–49 50–59 60+ All Ages
Graduates‡
Education 557 307 82 80 23 1,049
Mathematics 299 260 88 100 49 796
Physics 111 113 48 39 21 332
Chemistry 76 131 63 71 30 371
Biology 353 229 56 59 16 713
Other Sciences 186 191 65 64 24 530
Geography 315 232 45 99 35 726
Economics 57 82 23 46 37 245
Other Social Sciences 371 327 73 40 19 830
English 624 559 190 256 132 1,761
French 244 297 100 151 52 844
Other Modern Languages 147 142 57 65 15 426
Classics 24 35 37 61 39 196
History 359 280 100 188 98 1,025
Music 168 71 13 16 4 272
Arts (other) 623 643 173 159 77 1,675
Non-Graduates 2,262 4,742 2,323 5,461 3,337 18,125
Total 6,776 8,641 3,536 6,955 4,008 29,916
* Full-time teachers only. Moves from one full-time post to another within the maintained NPS schools sector are excluded, as are moves to full-time teaching posts in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools in Wales. About 5 per cent. overall of the levers shown went to full-time teaching posts in other maintained, assisted or grant-aided establishments (mainly special schools and establishments of further education). Further percentages, unquantified but probably small, of those shown may have gone to part-time teaching posts in maintained nursery, primary or secondary schools or other maintained, assisted or grant-aided establishments in England and Wales; or full-time or Part-time teaching posts in universities, independent establishments, Scotland, Northern Ireland or overseas.
† Subject of qualification available for graduates only.
‡ Each graduate teacher has been allocated to the first degree subject named on that teachers' record, except where the first-named subject was education and a second subject was named. In these latter cases teachers have been allocated to the second-named subject. The subject education has been used only where there was no other second subject.