§ Ms WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many new entrants to teaching posts there were in(a) primary or (b) secondary schools in each of the last five years. [7179]
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§ Mr. ForthThe numbers of new entrants to teaching, in the maintained nursery, primary and secondary sector in England and Wales, are given in the following table.
New entrants2 to March 1991 March 1992 March 1993 March 1994 March 19951 Nursery, primary sector 8,266 8,481 8,684 9,444 10,100 Secondary sector3 6,472 6,810 7,800 9,196 9,900 1Provisional data. 2Those in the maintained nursery, primary, secondary sector at 31 March of the year shown who first entered teaching in the preceding year. 3Excludes sixth form colleges.