§ Mr. StrawTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if, in respect of initial teacher training in subjects for which bursaries have been made available, he will list for each subject and each year for which a bursary scheme has operated, the number of applicants, the number of acceptances, the target for the subject, the amount of bursary and its total cost, and the proportion of students accepted for each course who completed their qualification, and the proportion who obtained employment in a maintained school, with aggregate totals for each year.
§ Mr. MacGregorAn evaluation commissioned from Bath university showed that in 1988, 83 per cent. of bursary holders went on to teach in maintained secondary schools, a higher proportion than the generality of ITT students. This finding is corroborated by evidence from a DES survey of bursary holders. It is not possible to disaggregate bursary holders from the total of students completing initial teacher training qualifications.
Table 1 shows the number of applications, recruitment targets, recruitment figures and total expenditure by subject and year.
Table 2 shows the amount of bursary by subject and year.
Table 1 Initial teacher training in the shortage subjects 1986 to 1990 For entry in year Applications Recruitment Targets Total cost £ Mathematics 1986–87 1,299 901 1,275 541,000 1987–88 1,801 1,194 1,383 1,287,000 1988–89 1,594 1,143 1,572 1,489,000 1989–90 1,809 1,139 1,549 1,483,000 CDT 1986–87 643 551 756 441,000 1987–88 1,044 743 867 944,000 1988–89 976 764 978 1,114,000 1989–90 1,554 775 1,020 1,155,000 Physics 1986–87 594 365 522 219,000 1987–88 962 545 552 560,000 1988–89 823 456 595 637,000 1989–90 748 322 611 506,000 Chemistry 1989–90 675 400 584 380,000 Since its institution, the bursary and the subjects covered have developed as follows: 32W
Table 2 Subjects eligible Year Level £ Maths, Physics, CDT 1986 1,200 Maths, Physics, CDT, Technology 1987 1,250 Maths, Physics, CDT, Technology 1988 11,300 Maths, Physics, CDT, Technology Chemistry 1989 11,300 1 + £200 CDT Equipment. "Technology" was added on legal advice so as to include courses entitled "Technology" which prepare students to teach other bursary subjects up to GCSE standard.
§ Mr. StrawTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what measures he has taken to monitor the effectiveness of the bursary schemes to attract student teachers to train in shortage subjects and to enter employment in the maintained sector; and what are the conclusions of such measures.
§ Mr. MacGregorResearch commissioned by my Department from the University of Bath school of education concluded that the bursary scheme had made an important contribution to attracting good quality students into shortage subject courses. At the time of the survey 83 per cent. of bursary holders had gone on to teach in maintained secondary schools, a higher proportion than the generality of newly trained teachers, Others were teaching in the independent sector or working in other posts connected with education. An increasing proportion of students had said that they could not have taken the course without a bursary, which helps to demonstrate the value of the scheme in attracting mature entrants to teaching.