§ 42. Mr. Porterasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the estimated shortage of mathematics and physics teachers in maintained schools for the academic year starting in September 1980.
§ Dr. BoysonInformation in the form requested is not available. Provisional results of a survey of local authorities, taken in January 1980, indicate that vacancies then existed for about 600 teachers of mathematics and 260 teachers of physics.