§ Mr. Bradleyasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many teachers were in training for teaching modern languages for each of the last five years.
§ Mr. OakesThe number of students on full-time postgraduate courses of initial teacher training and specialising in modern languages over the latest five years for which figures are available were 1971–969; 1972–1,084; 1973–1,008; 1974–912 and 1975–974.
Students on non-graduate teacher training courses often study more than one main subject; the number of main options in modern languages recorded for the same years were 5,128; 4,915; 4,778; 4,260; and 3,584.