§ Sir J. Fletcher-Cookeasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what percentage of male teachers have left teaching within seven years of completing their training in each of the last five years; to what reasons he ascribes this wastage; what action he is taking to minimise it; and whether he will make a statement.
§ Mr. CroslandThe Table below sets out the percentage of non-graduate men teachers, in the age bands shown, who left the maintained primary and secondary schools during the year ended 31st March, 1963, and in each of the preceding years. Broadly similar wastage rates applied to the corresponding men graduate teachers for the period in question.
younger trained men teachers. I do not regard the situation as one which calls for any special action on my part.