§ Mr. Buchanan-Smithasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how many student nurses and how many pupil nurses have entered training in each of the past five years; and how many students have entered the final examination for each section of the Register in each of the past five years.
§ Mr. RossThe numbers of student and pupil nurses entering training were:
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Students Pupils 1965 … … 2,553 1,544 1966 … … 2,412 1,568 1967 … … 2,561 1,812 1968 … … 2,371 1,831 1969 … … 2,195 1,613 the offer would not provide uniform increases because the Management side is proposing a major reorganisation of the present pattern of salary scales in order to give greater increases where it feels these to be most necessary. The offer also provides for a 15 per cent. increase in responsibility allowances; and for doubling, in secondary schools only, the present inducement payment of £100 for teachers serving in schools of serious staff shortage.
The effect of the Management Side's offer on the basic scales of the main categories of teachers in primary and secondary schools is shown in the following table:—
The numbers of students entering the final examination for each section of the Register were:—
Mental General Fever Sick Children's Mental Deficiency 1965 … 1,523 54 132 276 54 1966 … 1,520 23 113 259 43 1967 … 1,477 9 125 306 77 1968 … 1,422 — 148 291 60 1969 … 1,358 — 107 267 48
§ Mr. Buchanan-Smithasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what has been the average wastage of student and of pupil nurses in each of the past five years.
§ Mr. RossThe numbers of student and pupil nurses who discontinued training 93W in each of the past five years expressed as a percentage of the average numbers in training in each year are:
Students Per cent. Pupils Per cent. 1965 … … 12.2 29.2 1966 … … 13.2 30.2 1967 … … 11.9 24.8 1968 … … 14.3 29.8 1969 … … 15.5 22.3