HC Deb 27 June 1988 vol 136 cc9-12W
Mr. Straw

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Blackburn of 26 May,Official Report, column 236, if he will state the numbers separately of primary school teachers who (a) have a post A-level qualification in which science was a main subject and (b) have attended an in-service course in science of at least one term's full-time equivalent duration.

Mr. Kenneth Baker

[holding answer 14 June]: I regret that my answers to the first two of the hon. Member's questions of 26 May, at columns 236, 237, contained small errors. Some teachers whose training took the form of short courses only were included.

The corrected figures and further detail requested are as follows:

Maintained nursery and primary school teachers qualified in science
March 1987
Teachers with science as: Full-time Part-lime
1. Main subject of post-A-level qualification
(i) with long INSET course1 2400 —
(ii) without long INSET course 12,700 2,300
2. Second subject of post-A-level qualification
(i) with long INSET course1 100 —
(ii) without long INSET course 8,200 1,200
3. Subject of long INSET course1 only 700 —
Total of the above 22,000 3,400
1 Long INSET courses are courses in science of at least one term's full-time duration or equivalent, attended in the years 1982 to 1986.
2 Including some who obtained the qualification through the long INSET course.

Notes:

Thus in all an estimated 13,100 full-time and 2,300 part-time teachers had a post-A-level qualification in which science was a main subject, and 1,100 full-time teachers had attended an in-service course in science of at least one-term's full-time duration or equivalent in the years 1982 to 1986.

The revised estimate of the number of schools is 13,600 nursery and primary schools in England—68 per cent.—having at least one teacher with a post-A-level qualification that had science as the main or second subject or who had attended, in the previous five years, an in-service course in science of at least one term's full-time duration or equivalent.

Mr. Straw

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Blackburn of 26 May,Official Report, column 236, if he will state the numbers separately of primary school teachers who (a) have a post A-level qualification in which mathematics was a main or second subject and (b) have attended an in-service course in mathematics of at least one term's full-time equivalent duration.

Mr. Kenneth Baker

[holding answer 14 June 1988]: I regret that my answers to the first two of the hon. Member's questions of 26 May, at columns 236, 237, contained small errors. Some teachers whose training took the form of short courses only were included.

The corrected figures and further detail requested is as follows:

Maintained nursery and primary school teachers qualified in mathematics
March 1987
Teachers with mathematics as: Full-time Part-time
1. Main subject of post-A-level qualification
(i) with long INSET course1 21,100 —
(ii) without long INSET course 8,300 1,000
2. Second subject of post-A-level qualification
(i) with long INSET course1 100 —
(ii) without long INSET course 5,500 1,000
3. Subject of long INSET course1 only 1,400 100
Total of the above 16,400 2,200

1 Long INSET courses are courses in mathematics of at least one term's full-time duration or equivalent, attended in the years 1982 to 1986.

2 Including some who obtained the qualification through the long INSET course.

Notes:

Thus in all an estimated 15,000 full-time and 2,100 part-time teachers had a post-A-level qualification in which mathematics was a main or second subject, and 2,600 full-time and 100 part-time teachers had attended an in-service course in mathematics of at least one-term's full-time duration or equivalent in the years 1982 to 1986.

The revised estimate of the number of schools is 10,900 nursery and primary schools in England—55 per cent.—having at least one teacher with a post-A-level qualification that had mathematics as the main or second subject or who had attended, in the previous five years, an in-service course in mathematics of at least one term's full-time duration or equivalent.