HC Deb 30 November 2000 vol 357 cc811-2W
Mr. Willis

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what the cost in real terms was of training a teacher for each of the years from 1990 to 2000. [140771]

Ms Estelle Morris

Teacher training takes many forms and funding comes from a number of sources. In addition to Government grants to institutions to run ITT courses, ITT providers receive public and private fee income and many ITT students will be receiving support in the form of grants, loans or the newly introduced training salaries for postgraduate trainees. No figures are available centrally of the total cost, including all of these factors, of training a teacher.

Mr. Llwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many students failed to complete their teacher training courses; and what percentage of all the students on such courses this represented in the most recent academic year for which figures are available.[134911]

Ms Estelle Morris

I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of my letter in the Library.

Mr. Willis

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) if he will list for each UK teacher training institution the number of(a) target and (b) actual acceptances for (i) PGCE courses and (ii) BEd courses for each of the years 1997 to 2000 for (A) secondary teaching, broken down by subject specialism, and (B) primary teaching; [140784]

(2) how many people entered initial teacher training courses for (a) primary and (b) each secondary subject through (i) undergraduate, (ii) postgraduate and (iii) employment-based routes in each academic year from 1992–93 to 2000–01; and how many people in each intake have gained qualified teacher status to date. [140854]

Ms Estelle Morris

I will write to the hon. Member and place a copy of my letter in the Library.

Ms Kelly

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) what measures he has introduced to encourage professionals from the private sector to enter the teaching profession; and how many people from the private sector have trained as teachers in each year since 1990; [141221]

(2) how many students undertook teacher training in (a) BEd and (b) PGCE courses, and how many of these were mature students, in each year since 1990. [141222]

Ms Estelle Morris

I will write to my hon. Friend and place a copy of my letter in the Library.