§ Mr. RedmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Education how many graduates trained as secondary school teachers at each college in South Yorkshire in the past 10 years and the subjects studied; how many new graduate teachers were employed per local authority in that time; what occupations each graduate qualifying in secondary school teaching has entered in the last 10 years; and what has been the cost of training graduate secondary school teachers in each year since 1984.
§ Mr. Robin SquireTable 1 shows the number of students entering postgraduate courses at Sheffield university and Sheffield Hallam university to train as secondary school teachers in each year from 1983 to 1993. Table 2 shows the main subjects being studied for those entering such courses in 1993. Further details of individual subjects being studied in these institutions are available from the final reports of each survey held in the House of Commons Library.
Table 1 Recruitment to Secondary PGCE courses Year Sheffield University Sheffield Hallam University 1983 153 73 1984 138 77 1985 126 63 1986 118 98 1987 140 100 1988 137 112 1989 153 98 1990 138 96 1991 182 164 1992 180 155 1993 186 164
Table 2 Secondary PCGE students by subject 1993 Sheffield University Sheffield Hallam University Business Studies — 34 Design and Technology — 28 English 36 25 Geography 28 — History 14 — Modern Languages 37 15 Mathematics 20 23 Biology 14 — Chemistry 7 — General/Integrated Science 26 39 Physics 5 — The total number of new entrants to teaching in the maintained nursery, primary and secondary schools sector in England and Wales for each year from 1983 to 1992 is given in table 3. Separate information for graduate teachers is not readily available.
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Table 3 New entrants to teaching in the maintained nursery, primary and secondary sector
Year to March Numbers 1983 14,000 1984 13,400 1985 11,900
Year to March Numbers 1986 12,000 1987 12,600 1988 12,500 1989 14,200 1990 15,300 1991 15,300 1992 15,800 Information on the occupations taken up by successful initial teacher training students is not centrally available, although an analysis carried out by the Department shows that about 90 per cent. of completers go on to enter some form of teaching within five years after qualifying. Information on the cost of training secondary school teachers is not available.