HC Deb 27 June 1988 vol 136 cc8-9W
Mr. Ashdown

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information is available regarding the number and proportion, for each subject, of newly trained secondary teachers(a) taking up a first appointment in the maintained sector; and (b) working in the maintained sector after the satisfactory completion of probation; and if he will make a statement.

Mrs. Rumbold

[holding answer 13 June 1988]: The numbers and percentages of newly trained secondary teachers who in 1986 both completed training and took up a teaching appointment in a maintained secondary school are shown in the table. Others enter teaching at a later date, and a small number become teachers in the primary, special or further education sectors. For those who trained in university departments of education, data are readily available only for the three subjects shown.

The Department has no direct information on the numbers of teachers remaining in service after satisfactory completion of probation. However 10 per cent. of secondary teachers in service two terms after qualifying were no longer in service a year later.

First destination of newly trained secondary school teachers
Number in maintained secondary schools in England and Wales1 As percentage of all of known destination
Trained in public sector institutions in England and Wales:
Subject of training:
Mathematics 115 74
Chemistry 29 83
Physics 20 95
Biological Science 67 84
Other Science 72 79
English 170 86
English as a foreign language 6 67
French 68 74
Other languages 71 84
Drama 47 69
History 29 83
Geography 28 80
RE 90 76
CDT 170 84
Commercial and Business Studies 50 69
Economics 22 76
Social Studies 19 68
Art/Light Craft 44 80
Home Economics 187 80
Music 125 80
PE 381 74
Combinations 194 83
Other 137 77
Total 2,141 78
Trained in universities in the United Kingdom of which, by selected subjects of training: 23,186 274
Mathematics 3427 3 482
Chemistry 3238 3 478
Physics 3170 3 475

Notes:

1Excludes newly trained teachers whose destinations was unknown.

2 Includes destinations to all maintained schools in the United Kingdom.

3 Includes destinations to teaching appointments in any institution in the United Kingdom.

4 Based on PGCEs only (over 90 per cent. of university sector), and as a percentage of all successful completers, including those of unknown destination.