§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many academic research projects have been financially supported by research councils and the University Grants Committee during the last seven years.
§ Mr. WaldenThe University Grants Committee provides through recurrent, equipment and capital grants general financial support for reseach in universities. This support is not related to specific projects, but is intended to provide facilities and research activities, which can be further selectively funded by specific grants by the research councils.
The number of research grants awarded by each of the research councils to academic institutions over the past seven years is as follows:
458Wmany teachers have been employed to teach those subjects in secondary schools in the academic years between 1979–80 and 1985–86.
§ Mr. WaldenThe number of first-degree graduates in mathematics and physics from universities in Great Britain and polytechnics in England and Wales between 1974–75 and 1978–79 is estimated to have been 27,000. The number graduating between 1979–80 and 1984–85 was 35,000. The number of graduates in 1985–86 is not yet available.
Information is not collected annually on the deployment of teachers within schools. A staffing survey was carried out by the Department in 1984 among a sample of maintained secondary schools in England estimated that some 41,000 full-time teachers were teaching mathematics and some 13,000 were teaching physics. There were also some 10,000 who were teaching remedial mathematics. Some of the teachers in each of these subjects were teaching other subjects as well. Physics is also taught as a component within the subject "General Science", which some 28,000 teachers were teaching in 1984.