§ Mr. Gourlayasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will state for each education authority area the pupil/teacher ratio for primary and secondary 147W schools, respectively, for the last financial year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. Gordon CampbellThe figures at January, 1970, the latest date for which information is available, are set out in the table below.
PUPIL/TEACHER RATIOS Education Authority Primary Secondary BURGHS Aberdeen … 23.4:1 13.7:1 Dundee … 28.2:1 15.8:1 Edinburgh … 28.2:1 16.4:1 Glasgow … 35.8:1 17.0:1 COUNTIES Aberdeen … 24.9:1 15.0:1 Angus … 27.3:1 16.2:1 Argyll … 22.8:1 15.7:1 Ayr … 29.3:1 16.5:1 Banff … 25.8:1 15.3:1 Berwick … 22.7:1 13.5:1 Bute … 27.6:1 14.2:1 Caithness … 26.0:1 16.3:1 Clackmannan … 26.9:1 14.0:1 Dumfries … 28.2:1 15.4:1 Dunbarton … 27.8:1 16.2:1 East Lothian … 30.5:1 16.6:1 Fife … 29.7:1 15.1:1 Inverness … 23.1:1 16.6:1 Kincardine … 26.1:1 14.0:1 Kirkcudbright … 24.2:1 12.9:1 Lanark … 34.2:1 18.1:1 Midlothian … 29.9:1 15.5:1 Moray and Nairn … 28.5:1 16.8:1 Orkney … 22.1:1 14.3:1 Peebles … 27.7:1 15.9:1 Perth and Kinross … 24.2:1 14.6:1 Renfrew … 32.7:1 19.5:1 Ross and Cromarty … 22.9:1 15.3:1 Roxburgh … 26.2:1 16.1:1 Selkirk … 27.0:1 14.5:1 Stirling … 29.7:1 16.3:1 Sutherland … 23.2:1 11.8:1 West Lothian … 27.7:1 17.1:1 Wigtown … 26.8:1 15.8:1 Zetland … 21.9:1 14.2:1 All Scotland … 29.7:1 16.4:1 Note:
In the calculation of the ratios the full-time equivalent of part-time teachers is included but visiting, supply and relief teachers are excluded. Conditionally registered teachers and, in secondary schools only, unregistered teachers whose temporary appointments have been approved by a reference panel are included.