HC Deb 04 December 1996 vol 286 cc671-2W
Mr. Kirkwood

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many people(a) applied for places on teacher training courses in England and Wales and (b) successfully completed teacher training courses in each year since 1992; and if he will make a statement. [7295]

Mr. Forth

The available information is given in the following tables.

Applicants to initial teacher training1 courses
England and Wales
Courses starting in Autumn of:
1992 1993 1994 1995 1996
Postgraduate 31,700 34,400 32,400 33,800 33,200
Undergraduate2 n/a n/a n/a n/a 34,000
Total n/a n/a n/a n/a 67,300
1Includes School Centred Initial Teacher Training (SCITT) applicants only if applying through the Graduate Teacher Training Registry (GTTR).
2Reliable undergraduate information is not available prior to 1996. n/a = not available.

Number and percentage of children under five years of age in maintained nursery and primary schools in England January 1996
Number of pupils
Nursery schools Primary schools
Nursery classes Other classes
Full-time Part-time Full-time Part-time Full-time Part-time
Camden 43 34 531 441 984 0
Greenwich 344 334 458 2,208 1,087 16
Hackney 62 88 776 1,316 1,585 12
Hammersmith and Fulham 322 231 621 557 558 1
Islington 159 159 983 607 1,475 0
Kensington and Chelsea 174 76 430 171 368 0
Lambeth 190 260 546 1,437 1,020 36
Lewisham 100 130 417 2,106 1,065 58
Southwark 225 270 734 1,836 2,060 0
Tower Hamlets 446 260 1,763 1,076 1,531 16
Wandsworth 120 86 809 1,372 1,662 6
Westminster 45 150 464 587 529 15
Barking and Dagenham 0 0 3 2,098 1,543 0
Barnet 24 557 1 1,962 2,047 106
Bexley 0 0 9 1,524 2,016 6
Brent 218 2 772 1,608 2,064 2
Bromley 0 0 6 177 2,393 2
Croydon 0 500 0 1,648 2,864 24
Ealing 16 455 0 3,350 2,458 0
Enfield 0 0 0 1,682 2,376 41
Haringey 163 35 503 2,068 1,867 38
Harrow 0 0 0 1,029 1,605 0
Havering 0 0 14 538 1,943 0
Hillingdon 0 120 2 3,261 46 105
Hounslow 0 0 3 2,393 1,691 2
Kingston upon Thames 60 151 6 1,117 504 570
Merton 0 0 0 2,711 763 244
Newham 99 890 79 3,507 1,278 1
Redbridge 0 0 26 1,404 1,319 188
Richmond upon Thames 5 67 0 791 92 1,068
Sutton 0 240 8 1,701 69 5
Waltham Forest 39 286 97 2,395 1,034 17

Numbers of successful completers from initial teacher training1 courses
England and Wales
Calendar year
1992 1993 1994 1995 19962
Postgraduate 13,600 15,100 16,200 17,300 n/a
Undergraduate2 7,400 8,300 9,400 10,500 n/a
Total 20,900 23,400 25,600 27,700 n/a
1Includes SCITT completers.
2Information not yet available.
n/a = not available.