§ Mr. Lawlerasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many specialist careers teachers are employed in England and Wales compared with 1977.
§ Mrs. RumboldThe latest available information is derived from a sample survey carried out by this Department in 1984. This indicated that in maintained secondary schools in England there were some 800 full-time teachers for whom careers lessons formed the largest teaching subject. There were nearly 1,000 full-time teachers who had a higher education qualification in which careers education had been a main or subsidiary subject, compared with about 500 (in England and Wales) recorded by a similar sample survey in 1977.