HC Deb 26 July 1978 vol 954 cc785-6W
Mr. Richard Wainwright

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether she will produce from information available to her a table showing the distribution by age of the numbers of mathematics, science and modern language graduates at present employed as teachers in primary and secondary schools.

Miss Margaret Jackson

The distribution by age of the number of full-time teachers with a degree in mathematics or science employed in maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools at 31st March 1977, the latest date for which information is available, is as follows:

Mathematics Science*
Under 25 911 2,385
25–29 2,068 7,660
30–34 1,347 4,484
35–39 938 3,328
40–44 667 2,366
45–49 597 1,787
50–54 430 1,172
55–59 308 772
60–64 193 497
65 and over 8 22
Total 7,467 24,473
* Including agriculture, medicine and technology.

Information is not readily available on the age distribution of the 13,598 teachers with a degree in a modern foreign language who were in these schools at the same date.