HC Deb 08 March 1983 vol 38 c333W
Mr. Jim Callaghan

asked th Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he is satisfied that there are sufficient opportunities for newly qualified teachers.

Dr. Boyson

Despite the fall in teacher numbers, more than two thirds of all newly qualiied teachers continue to find posts in teaching. But the Government are concerned that the supply of new teachers should be more closely related to the demand; hence their decisions to reduce the total intake to initial teacher training in 1982, to reduce intakes to training for secondary teaching, and to increase those to training for primary teaching, in 1983–85.