§ Mr. Cartwrightasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what steps he is taking to deal with the shortage of secondary school teachers in certain specialist subjects.
§ Dr. BoysonTeacher training institutions are giving priority to these subjects, although recruitment is falling short of the targets. The Government's special schemes of training, retraining and further training which have so far provided 1,600 new teachers in shortage subjects are to continue to 1982–83. The Government are shortly to discuss with representatives of the local education authorities what further measures should be taken.