§ Mr. StrawTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the local education authorities participating in(a) the licensed teacher schemes and (b) the articled teacher schemes, with the number of trainees in every case, and the estimated cost per place, together with an estimate of the cost of training, by postgraduate, of certificate of education and bachelor of education route.
§ Mrs. RumboldLicensed teachers are appointed by local education authorities and schools to specific posts, and the nature and the cost of the training to be provided will depend on the needs of the individual teachers appointed.
The training costs of licensed teachers are eligible for support under the local education authorities training grants scheme. Table A lists the local education authorities which are to receive support for licensed teacher training and associated costs in the financial year 1990–91. The amount of eligible expenditure to be supported, the number of licensed teachers expected to be supported and the average training costs implied by this for the financial year are also shown in each case. However, local education authorities and schools may appoint licensed teachers beyond these.
Consortia of local education authorities and initial teacher training institutions were invited to submit bids to run articled teacher pilot schemes in June 1989. The number of places allocated to successful consortia is listed in table B, together with the participating local education authorities and the estimated costs per student.
The annual cost of PGCE and BEd places varies considerably from institution to institution. For the 1991–92 academic year the guide price for initial teacher training places applied by the UFC is £3,500, which includes the tuition fee but excludes any research costs. Institutions in the PCFC sector have been advised that, as an upper reference point, the mean unit of funding in 1990–91 is £1,950 and that they should assume that they will receive through the tuition fee £2,500 for a band 2 student (which includes PGCE students and some BEd students) and £1,675 for a band 1 student. Both the UFC and the PCFC sector figures exclude provision for student maintenance.
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(a) (b) (c) Local education authority Training of licensed teachers Expected number licensed teachers Implied average training costs1 Havering 31,000 10 3,100 Hillingdon 42,700 15 2,846 Hounslow 14,600 5 2,920 Kingston upon Thames 26,000 10 2,600 Merton 30,000 10 3,000 Newham 91,000 16 5,687 Redbridge 17,500 5 3,500 Richmond upon Thames 10,000 15 666 Sutton 28,000 6 4,666 Waltham Forest 58,000 11 5,272 Greenwich 13,000 20 650 Hackney 37,000 30 1,233 Hammersmith and Fulham 17,000 12 1,416 Islington 106,000 140 757 Kensington and Chelsea 30,000 10 3,000 Tower Hamlets 38,330 10 3,833 Wandsworth 31,500 20 1,575 Westminster 8,000 6 1,333 Coventry 31,800 7 4,542 Dudley 42,000 10 4,200 Sandwell 48,250 10 4,825 Bolton 3,000 1 3,000 Stockport 1,000 1 1,000 Bradford 20,500 5 4,100 Bedfordshire 35,000 10 3,500 Berkshire 30,000 10 3,000 Buckinghamshire 72,000 14 5,142 Cambridgeshire 27,360 6 4,560 Derbyshire 34,000 12 2,833 Devon 24,500 6 4,083 Dorset 20,000 6 3,333 Essex 162,000 25 6,480 Gloucestershire 30,330 10 3,033 Hereford and Worcester 6,000 2 3,000 Hertfordshire 93,000 32 2,906 Kent 120,000 35 3,428 Lancashire 30,000 10 3,000 Lincolnshire 40,600 20 2,030 North Yorkshire 24,000 15 1,600 Northamptonshire 138,000 25 5,520 Nottinghamshire 12,200 4 3,050 Oxfordshire 10,950 10 1,095 Somerset 28,400 6 4,733 Staffordshire 28,000 10 2,800 Surrey 50,000 16 3,125 West Sussex 10,000 3 3,333 Wiltshire 38,300 10 3,830 1(a) ÷ (b). 222W
Bid area Participating LEAs Number of student places allocated Annual cost per student excluding bursary (£) Cambridge Cambridgeshire Bedfordshire Hertfordshire 50 4,000 Hampshire Hampshire West Sussex Isle of Wight 50 3,181 East London Havering Tower Hamlets 34 4,681 Leeds Leeds 50 4,810 Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire 16–20 4,655 Kent Kent 50 1,747 Cheshire Tameside 30–35 3,223 Devon Devon 60 4,053 Humberside Humberside 36 3,810 North East London Newham Tower Hamlets 30 3,607 223W
Bid area Participating LEAs Number of student places allocated Annual cost per student excluding bursary (£) North London Brent Islington Camden Hackney Enfield 50 1,210 South West London Wandsworth Kensington and Chelsea Hillingdon Westminster Croydon Ealing 52 607 Warwickshire Warwickshire Coventry Solihull 15 5,876 Central/ North London Camden Hackney Harrow Islington 40 5,000
Bid area Participating LEAs Number of student places allocated Annual cost per student excluding bursary (£) Manchester Oldham Rochdale Salford Wigan 50 4,983 Bristol Gloucestershire Wiltshire 30 4,357 Notes:
1. Costs are incurred for two academic years.
2. Figures exclude institutional funding from the UFC and PCFC which will be based on 0.5 of a full-time equivalent place each year.
3. 65 per cent. of the costs will be met from the LEA Training Grants Scheme; the other 35 per cent. will come from LEAs.
4. The cost of the bursary per student, over the two year training period is £13,000 in London and £11,000 elsewhere.