§ Mr. SteinbergTo ask the Secretary of State for Education how many teachers are teaching subjects they have no qualifications to teach; and what progress has been made and measures taken to reduce the numbers.
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe latest information is provided by the 1992 secondary school staffing survey. The table shows the percentage of full-time secondary teachers in England who gave some tuition in a subject in which they held no post-A level qualification, and the percentage of tuition this represented. About half of this tuition was by teachers with five or more years' experience of teaching the subject.
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Subject Percentage of teachers without a qualification Tuition by these teachers as a percentage of all tuition in subject Mathematics 22 10 Biology 14 11 Chemistry 5 3 Physics 6 4 General Science 16 9 CDT 50 34 English 27 14 French 18 9 German 24 13 Other Languages 34 19 History 28 11 Geography 29 10 Music 19 5 Art 24 7
Subject Percentage of teachers without a qualification Tuition by these teachers as a percentage of all tuition in subject Physical Education 32 9 Religious Education 54 25 Compared with the results of the 1988 secondary school staffing survey, these figures show a slight improvement.
The Department has funded a range of measures which have enhanced the skills of existing teachers and improved the supply of secondary subject specialists. These include £170 million currently being spent on in-service training, and specific support for upgrading non-specialist teachers of physics, chemistry and French. There has been a 44 per cent. increase in recruitment to secondary teacher training since 1990.