§ Mr. Hancockasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much money he plans to make available for in-service training of teachers of the deaf.
§ Mr. Chris PattenThe Government intend that support from public funds for the provision of training for teachers of the deaf should continue at a level sufficient to assure the supply of such teachers. The student numbers now allocated to courses of initial teacher training in special educational needs will be transferred to in-service training when intakes to those courses cease. The costs to local authorities who send teachers for in-service training are currently supported through arrangements for the pooling among local authorities of in-service teacher training costs.
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Leavers from maintained schools in Hampshire Academic year 1979–80 Thousands 1980–81 Thousands 1981–82 Thousands 1982–83 Thousands 1983–84 Thousands 1984–85 Thousands Total leavers 22.45 23.04 23.20 22.72 24.20 22.36 Number attempting O level in: English 9.64 10.06 10.60 9.97 11.40 10.03 Mathematics 6.46 7.10 7.57 7.61 8.59 8.03 A science 7.68 8.03 8.82 8.17 9.21 8.34 A modern language 3.54 3.70 4.13 3.76 4.02 3.75 We intend that these costs should be eligible for support from 1 April 1987 under the new financial arrangements for which we are seeking statutory powers through the Education Bill now before the House.