§ 39 and 40. Mrs. Hartasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) how many grammar schools, senior secondary schools, secondary modern schools, and comprehensive schools for boys and girls, respectively, had specialist science teachers; how many had none; and how many schools in each category had teachers specialising in subjects other than botany or biology, at the latest convenient date:
(2) how many specialist science teachers in grammar schools and other secondary schools, respectively, were science graduates, at the latest convenient date.
§ Mr. HoggInformation in the form requested is not available, but some relevant data are to be found in Tables 7 and 33 of Statistics of Education 1962, Part One. They show that in March, 1962 there were about 6.000 science graduates in the 1,300 maintained grammar schools in England and Wales, and a further 2,800 in the 4,600 other maintained secondary schools, where much science teaching is also undertaken by those who have specialised in the subject during their training college courses.