Duchess of ATHOLLasked the President of the Board of Education how many additional teachers will be needed if the school-leaving age is raised to 15; how many additional teachers will have passed through the training colleges or the university training departments by 1st April, 1931, by 1st July, 1931, and by 1st July, 1932, respectively; and how 625W many additional teachers can be obtained by the retention or recall of married women teachers, and the retention of teachers over 60 years of age, in April, 1931?
§ Sir C. TREVELYANThe information received from local education authorities is not 3 et sufficient to enable me to give an estimate of the total number of additional teachers that will be needed when the school-leaving age is raised to 15. No additional teachers will have passed through the training colleges or university training departments by 1st April, 1931; but the raising of the leaving age as from that date will not create any appreciable demand for additional staff until after the summer holidays. The output of trained teachers in the summer of 1931 is expected to exceed the output for 1930 by about 1,400, but it is not yet possible to give the numbers for 1932. Although the number of additional teachers who can be obtained by the retention or recall of married women teachers and the retention of teachers over 60 years of age cannot be given, the Board's records show that there must be a considerable number available. A large number of women teachers give up teaching for causes (including marriage) which do not involve a superannuation award, and while a certain number resume service after a break, the excess of the former number over the latter has been more than 2,500 in each of the last few years. Further, between 1,100 and 1,400 certificated teachers (men and women) have retired on pension each year before the age of 65.