§ Mrs. René e Shortasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many vacancies there were for (a) mathematics teachers, (b) science 272W teachers and (c) craft design and technology teachers at the latest convenient date; and how this compares with the same period in 1979.
§ Dr. BoysonUnfilled vacancies reported by local education authorities in England and Wales were:
January 1979 January 1980 Mathematics 463 599 Physical Science 417 597 Craft Design and Technology 294 389
§ Mrs. René e Shortasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many teachers of (a) mathematics, (b) physics, (c) chemistry and (d) craft and technology were not teaching their own subjects at the latest convenient date.
§ Dr. BoysonAnalysis of data from a survey of secondary school staffing, conducted in the autumn of 1977, shows that the following number of full-time teachers in England and Wales had studied, but were not teaching, these subjects:
Mathematics 18,000 Physics 12,500 Chemistry 10,600 There will be some duplication in these figures where teachers have studied 273W more than one of the subjects and are teaching only one of them.
The data for teachers of craft, design and technology are in less readily interpretable form and a figure is not available.