Mr. Cartwcenterasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is his most recent estimate of the 402W England and Wales and (b) Inner London.
§ Dr. BoysonNo precise data are available. From a special survey of maintained secondary schools in 1977, the following broad estimates were made of the number of full-time teachers then teaching each subject without themselves having studied the subject. These teachers were providing a minor proportion of total tuition in each of the stated subjects, and spent a third or less of their teaching week on these subjects, as the supplementary information shows.
number of teachers undergoing in-service training in mathematics, physical sciences, craft design and technology, modern languages and English, respectively, in inner London and in each of the outer London education authorities.
§ Dr. BoysonThe information requested is not available centrally. It is for each local education authority to determine its own priorities for in-service training in the light of the needs of teachers and schools in its area.