§ Mr. St. John-Stevasasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) how many specialist religious education teachers completed training in 1981; what is his estimate of the number of specialist religious education teachers expected to complete their training in 1982; and how many specialist religious education teachers have been trained in each of the last 20 years;
(2) how many students completed the Bachelor of Education degree course in 1980 and 1981; and what percentage of graduates from those courses included religious education as their main specialist subject;
(3) how many specialist teachers in (a) geography, (b) mathematics, (c) history, (d) English, (e) music, (f) biology, (g) engineering, (h) domestic science, (i) science, chemistry, and (j) science, physics completed training in 1981; and how many specialist teachers in those subjects have been trained in each of the last 20 years.
§ Dr. BoysonInformation about the number of students who successfully complete initial teacher training courses in individual subjects is not available. An indication of the numbers completing their courses in any academic year may be obtained from the numbers of students enrolled on the final year of their courses at the beginning of that academic year. Such information which is readily available for the academic years 1978–79, 1979–80 and 1980–81 is presented in the following table. Comparable figures for 1981–82 are not yet available.
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Enrolments of home students on the final year of full-time and sandwich initial teacher training courses in England and Wales 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 Post-graduate First degree Other courses Total Post-graduate First degree Other courses Total Post-graduate First degree Other courses Total Subject of study (a) Religious education* 207 589 469 1,265 242 481 192 915 279 390 124 793 (b) Other selected main subjects Geography 450 652 312 1,414 462 455 91 1,008 490 311 38 839 Mathematics 590 340 244 1,174 492 308 132 932 706 278 54 1,038 History 685 876 415 1,976 669 617 128 1,414 721 420 48 1,189 English 896 1,503 719 3,118 874 1,100 266 2,240 977 820 122 1,919 Music 274 323 349 946 289 266 244 799 322 231 163 716 Biological Science 607 325 220 1,152 564 218 105 887 650 170 70 890 Technology 33 182 412 627 27 171 271 469 71 173 301 545 Domestic Science 8 369 276 653 15 346 234 595 22 312 112 446 Chemistry 304 19 14 337 272 19 9 300 388 19 3 410 Physics 194 23 12 229 189 18 4 211 278 16 1 295 (c) Other subjects† 5,605 5,371 5,683 16,659 5,503 4,425 3,163 13,091 5,990 3,576 1,887 11,453 (d) Total 9,853 10,572 9,125 29,550 9,598 8,424 4,839 22,861 10,894 6,716 2,923 20,533 * Including courses for which religious education is combined with another subject. † Including courses for which the subjects in (b) are combined with other subjects.