§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many jobs he estimates will be available for newly qualified teachers in 1981–82; how such an estimate is arrived at; and how many newly qualified teachers he estimates will be looking for jobs.
§ Dr. BoysonOn the current hypotheses about the level of wastage from teaching, about 11,000 vacancies for full-time teachers at maintained schools in England would be consistent with a reduction in the total stock of teachers from the January 1981 level to that envisaged in Cmnd. 8175 for 1981–82. The actual number of vacancies, and the
England and Wales 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 Estimated numbers qualifying 38,000 34,000 28,000 21,000 Percentage of those for whom information is available who are known to have obtained a post in the United Kingdom or to be seeking one 88.2 88.3 87.8 87.3