HC Deb 24 April 1969 vol 782 cc101-2W
11. Mr. Awdry

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what proportion of teachers in maintained grammar, comprehensive and secondary modern schools, respectively, were graduates, in 1968 and the three preceding years.

Miss Bacon

Figures for 1968 are not yet available. The following table gives the percentages for the earlier years. These show a small decline in all three types of school, but the total number of graduates is increasing slowly.

The percentages of graduates in maintained secondary schools were:

31st March
1965 1966 1967
Grammar schools 76.2 74.5 73.9
Comprehensive schools 42.4 41.5 39.7
Secondary modern schools 16.2 15.9 15.7