§ Mr. Cantasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) whether he will publish an estimate of the net increase in the demand for primary school teachers in each year from 1985 to 1990;
(2) whether, in order to meet the increase in demand for primary school teachers in the latter half of this decade, it is his intention to encourage local education authorities to recruit newly qualified teachers rather than former teacher re-entrants, as recommended by the advisory committee on the supply and training of teachers.
§ Dr. BoysonProjections of vacancies for primary teachers over the next decade were included in the advice on the planning of initial teacher training recently submitted by the advisory committee on the supply and education of teachers to my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for Education and Science and for Wales. The relevant figures, which are subject o considerable uncertainties, are as follows: 261W
Financial year Primary vacancies (thousands) 1985–86=100 1985–86 11.4 100 1986–87 11.4 100 1987–88 12.9 113 1988–89 14.8 130 1989–90 15.9 139 Note: Most of the vacancies in a financial year occur in the first of the two calendar years.
As a basis for planning the committee judged that new entrants and re-entrants to teaching might each fill about half of these vacancies, but it advised that it should
Under five education, England 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1. Recurrent expenditure by local education authorities on under-fives education (total of children at 6 and 7 below) £146,000,000 £177,000,000 £222,000,000 2. Number of maintained nursery schools 593 596 588 3. Number of maintained primary schools with designated nursery classes 3,200 3,361 3,517 4. Full-time equivalent number of teaching and nursery assistant staff in nursery schools and classes 12,979 13,399 13,420 5. Full-time equivalent number of teaching staff in nursery schools and classes (included in line 4 above) 5,743 5,974 6,117 6. Number of children under 5 in maintained nursery schools and classes 210,248 215,451 221,550 7. Number of children under 5 in infants classes of maintained primary schools* 218,392 213,469 206,507 * Information is not available on the numbers of schools and staff involved in the education of these children.