§ Mr. Andrew F. Bennettasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many teachers in England and Wales left the profession in each of the past 10 years (a) to retire and (b) to take up other jobs; and what estimates she has made of the number of teachers eligible to retire for the next 10 years.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonThe number of full-time teachers leaving maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools and maintained, assisted and grant-aided further education establishments—including colleges of education—in each of the 10 latest years for which information is available was as follows:
Year ending 31 March 1967 … … … 29,800* 1968 … … … 31,400* 1969 … … … 32,658 1970 … … … 32,991 1971 … … … 34,413 1972 … … … 35,473 1973 … … … 36,767 1974 … … … 40,392 1975 … … … 45,146 1976 … … … 39,772 * Estimated Information is not available on their reasons for leaving. However, the number of age pensions awarded to teachers in the same period was as follows:
Year ending 31 March 1967 … … … 6,923 1968 … … … 7,128 1969 … … … 7,796 1970 … … … 7,017 1971 … … … 7,010 1972 … … … 6,749 1973 … … … 7,318 1974 … … … 8,669 1975 … … … 8,918 1976 … … … 8,223 The figures include a small number of pensions awarded under the teachers superannuation regulations to teachers in special, direct grant and independent schools who are not separately identified in the Department's records. They also include pensions paid for the first time in the year shown to people who had 145W retired in a previous year and frozen their pension until normal retirement age.
Due to teachers leaving the profession before reaching 60 it is difficult to estimate precisely the number of teachers in service eligible to retire over the next 10 years. On 31st March 1976, 17,077 full-time teachers in regular service in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools and in maintained, assisted and grant-aided further education establishments—including former colleges of education—were aged 60 and over, and 77,100 were between 50 and 59 years of age.
§ Mr. Andrew F. Bennettasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many teachers in England Wales returned to the profession in each of the past 10 years after occupying other jobs; what estimate she has made of the number for the current year; and what estimates she has of the number of ex-teachers who might wish to return to teaching in each of the next three years.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonThe number of teachers who returned to full-time service in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools and maintained, assisted and grant-aided further education establishments—including colleges of education—in each of the 10 latest years for which information is available was as follows:
Year ending 31st March 1967 … … … … 10,531 1968 … … … … 11,393 1969 … … … … 11,775 1970 … … … … 12,801 1971 … … … … 14,430 1972 … … … … 14,050 1973 … … … … 14,696 1974 … … … … 16,772 1975 … … … … 15,474 1976 … … … … 14,073
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Financial years (£000) 1976–77(a) 1977–78(b) Nursery Total expenditure Nursery Total expenditure Avon … … … … 1,007 98,185 967 108,479 Cornwall … … … … 162 38,333 219 44,775 Devon … … … … 263 86,485 308 94,702 Dorset … … … … 110 57,089 120 64,186 Gloucestershire* … … … … (c) 56,009 (c) 61,141 Somerset … … … … 66 41,663 72 45,614 Wiltshire … … … … 12 57,102 17 62,283 (a) 1976–77 estimates at 1976 survey prices. (b) 1977–78 estimates at 1977 survey prices. (c) Not published. * In July 1976 Gloucestershire closed its only nursery school but expenditure was incurred on staff and premises. Information is not available about how many of these returned after occupying other jobs. It is estimated that the potential re-entrants to the above educational sectors this year and in the next three years will be of the order of 15,000 to 20,000 per annum.