§ Mr. Clemitsonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) what percentage of student teachers did not take up posts in maintained schools on completion of their training courses in each of the last five years for which figures are available;
183W(2) of those student teachers who did not take up posts in maintained schools on completion of their training courses in each of the last five years for which figures are available, what proportions (a) took up teaching posts in non-maintained schools, (b) entered further educational or training courses, (c) became employed in jobs outside teaching and (d) became unemployed.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonThe Department collects information about the first appointments of newly trained teachers in respect of appointments to maintained primary and secondary schools only. The percentage of student teachers who successfully completed courses of initial teacher training, but had not taken up teaching posts in maintained primary and secondary schools by the September following the completion of their courses, was as follows:
Per cent. 1970 … … … 19 1971 … … … 24 1972 … … … 26 1973 … … … 22 1974 … … … 26 It is estimated that between 1970 and 1974 a small proportion—perhaps 3 per cent. per annum—of newly qualified teachers may have taken up their first teaching posts in non-maintained schools; and a similar proportion in maintained special schools or FE establishments. Information is not available to answer the remainder of the second Question in the form in which it is asked; statistics collected by the Department of Employment do not include details about the qualification dates of teachers registered as unemployed.