§ Mr. Newensasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science which local authorities are currently employing fewer than their quota of teachers.
§ Mr. Edward ShortInformation relating to a current date will be available in a few weeks. I will write to my hon. Friend.
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§ Mr. Richard Wainwrightasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are the yearly totals of newly-trained teachers in each of the years since 1960; and, of each total, approximately how many are still teaching in the United Kingdom, giving separately the number teaching part-time.
§ Mr. Edward ShortThe numbers of students successfully completing courses of initial training up to and including 1965–66 are published in Table 9 of Statistics of Education Vol. 4, 1966. Twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and fourteen successfully completed initial training in 1966–67 and an estimated 32,000 in 1967–8. The information asked for in the second part of the Question is not available but some statistics of wastage rates by age groups are in Table 24 of the same volume.
§ Mr. Richard Wainwrightasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many trained former teachers have returned to teaching during each of the years since 1960.
§ Mr. Edward ShortThe following numbers of qualified non-graduate and trained graduate teachers returned to full-time service in maintain primary and secondary schools in the years shown:—
Year ended 31st March Qualified Non-graduates Trained Graduates 1963 6,815 1,229 1964 5,966 1,035 1965 7,242 1,187 1966 8,040 1,478 1967 (provisional) 7,348 1,281 No complete figures are available for earlier years and figures for 1968 are not yet available. The figures for non-graduates include a small number of untrained teachers: separate figures of those trained are not available.