HC Deb 23 November 2000 vol 357 cc303-4W
32. Mr. Clappison

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many mathematics graduates were recruited onto PGCE courses for teaching in secondary schools commencing in (a) September 1997, (b) September 1999 and (c) September 2000. [138395]

Ms Estelle Morris

The table shows the number of students entering full-time and part-time postgraduate courses of initial teacher training in mathematics in England:

Academic year Postgraduate recruitment
1997–98 1,178
1998–99 928
1999–2000 1,109
2000–01 11,135
1This figure is provisional and does not include 37 graduate trainees in mathematics who have taken up places on the employment-based Graduate Teacher Programme since 1 September 2000

Source:

Teacher Training Agency survey of initial teacher training providers