HC Deb 24 October 1968 vol 770 cc327-8W
52. Sir Clive Bossom

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is his estimate of the current shortage of teachers in maintained primary and secondary schools.

Miss Bacon

About 40,000 more teachers would be needed to enable the schools to reach the pupil-teacher ratios postulated in the Ninth Report of the National Advisory Council for the Training and Supply of Teachers. These are 26.3:1 in primary schools, 16.3:1 in the first five years of secondary schools and 10.6:1 in the upper forms of secondary schools.