HC Deb 25 February 1998 vol 307 c297W
Mr. Don Foster

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many people entered courses of initial teacher training broken down by gender, for(a) primary and (b) secondary schools in the year 1996–97. [30848]

Ms Estelle Morris

The following table shows the number of people entering initial teacher training in 1996–97, broken down by gender and phase.

1996–97 recruitment1 to initial teacher training (ITT) courses, England
Male2 Female2 Total
Primary 1,703 10,592 12,295
Secondary 6,559 9,038 15,597
Total 8,262 19,630 27,892
1 New entrant figures exclude School Centred ITT but include Open University.
2 The number of new entrants by gender has been estimated using gender splits from 1996–97 HESA data and the total number of new entrants from the 1996–97 TTA Survey of ITT Providers.

Sources:

New entrants—Teacher Training Agency (TTA) survey of ITT providers.

Gender split—Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) December 1996.