HC Deb 15 February 2001 vol 363 cc202-5W
Mr. Hayes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many newly qualified teachers employed in(a) the primary and (b) the secondary sector, have left their posts within (i) one year. (ii) two years and (iii) three years in each of the past five years, broken down in the case of secondary school teachers by the subject of their qualification. [147636]

Ms Estelle Morris

[holding answer 29 January 2001]: The number of leavers in each year as a proportion of the appropriate cohort of new entrants has remained reasonably constant throughout the five year period and the proportion of leavers from the overall number of teachers in service fell in 1998–99.

New full-time and part-time qualified teachers from the nursery, primary and secondary schools sector in England who left the maintained schools sector in their first three years, and all leavers, are as follows.

Leavers 1994–95
Less than 1 year1,2 One but less than 2 years2 Two but less than 3 years2 All leavers3
Music 20 30 30 n/a
Religious education 20 20 20 n/a
Physical education 30 30 50 n/a
Other subject or subject not known 90 90 100 n/a
Total secondary 620 750 660 15,600 (8 per cent.)
Total nursery, primary and secondary 1,230 1,360 1,260 31,100 (8 per cent.)
Leavers as a proportion of the appropriate cohort of new entrants (per cent.) 6.9 8.4 8.2

Leavers 1995–96
Less than 1 year1,2 One but less than 2 years2 Two but less than 3 years2 All leavers3
Nursery and primary 680 640 620 15,800 (8 per cent.)
Secondary
Mathematics 80 120 70 n/a
English 70 120 90 n/a
Science 120 160 130 n/a
Languages 80 130 110 n/a
Technology and Art 130 150 110 n/a
History 40 40 30 n/a
Geography 20 40 30 n/a
Music 20 30 20 n/a
Religious education 20 30 30 n/a
Physical education 60 40 50 n/a
Other subject or subject not known 90 90 80 n/a
Total secondary 720 920 730 16,600 (8 per cent.)
Total nursery, primary and secondary 1,400 1,560 1,340 32,400 (8 per cent.)
Leavers as a proportion of the appropriate eohort of new entrants (per cent.) 7.3 8.8 8.3

Leavers 1996–97
Less than 1 year1,2 One but less than 2 years2 Two but less than 3 years2 All leavers3
Nursery and primary 650 650 620 16,400 (9 per cent.)
Secondary
Mathematics 80 100 80 n/a
English 80 100 100 n/a
Science 120 130 130 n/a
Languages 90 100 100 n/a
Technology and Art 120 120 140 n/a
History 40 30 30 n/a
Geography 20 40 40 n/a
Music 20 30 20 n/a
Religious education 20 20 20 n/a
Physical education 50 40 60 n/a
Other subject or subject not known 70 50 60 n/a
Total secondary 700 760 790 15,900 (8 per cent.)
Total nursery, primary and secondary 1,350 1,410 1,400 32,400 (8 per cent.)
Leavers as a proportion of the appropriate cohort of new entrants (per cent.) 7.0 7.3 7.9

Leavers 1997–98
Less than 1 year1,2 One but less than 2 years2 Two but less than 3 years2 All leavers3
Nursery and primary 730 730 690 17,700 (9 per cent.)
Secondary
Mathematics 70 100 80 n/a
English 100 120 100 n/a
Science 110 140 130 n/a
Languages 80 110 120 n/a
Technology and Art 100 130 120 n/a
History 40 40 30 n/a
Geography 30 30 40 n/a
Music 20 30 30 n/a
Religious education 20 30 30 n/a

Leavers 1997–98
Less than 1 year1,2 One but less than 2 years2 Two but less than 3 years3 All leavers3
Physical education 70 50 40 n/a
Other subject or subject not known 60 50 50 n/a
Total secondary 710 820 760 17,700 (9 per cent.)
Total nursery, primary and secondary 1,440 1,550 1,460 35,100 (9 per cent.)
Leavers as a proportion of the appropriate cohort of new entrants (per cent.) 7.2 8.0 7.6

Leavers 1998–99
Less than 1 year1,2 One but less than 2 years2 Two but less than 3 years22 All leavers 33
Nursery and primary 580 760 770 13,500 (7 per cent.)
Secondary
Mathematics 80 100 100 n/a
English 120 130 120 n/a
Science 130 170 140 n/a
Languages 90 130 130 n/a
Technology and Art 130 150 120 n/a
History 40 40 40 n/a
Geography 40 60 30 n/a
Music 20 40 30 n/a
Religious education 30 40 20 n/a
Physical education 70 70 50 n/a
Other subject or subject not known 50 50 40 n/a
Total secondary 790 970 820 14,000 (7 per cent.)
Total nursery, primary and secondary 1,380 1,730 1,580 27,500 (7 per cent.)
Leavers as a proportion of the appropriate cohort of new entrants (per cent.) 6.4 8.6 8.2
1 Includes those who entered and left within a year.
2 Excludes those who left but returned to service within the same financial year.
3 All full-time and part-time qualified teachers from the nursery, primary and secondary schools sector in England who have left teaching or left the maintained schools sector. The figure in brackets is all leavers as a percentage of full and part-time teachers in service at the start of the financial year. Subject of qualification is not available for leavers who qualified before 1985.

The full-time equivalent number of regular teachers in the maintained sector has increased by 6,900 between January 1998 and January 2000.There was a growth of 2,000 in the number of people training to be teachers between 1999–2000 and 2000–01, the first such increase since 1992–93.

From April 2001 new graduate recruits can expect to earn £17,000 a year (up from 6 per cent. from the previous year) and starting salaries in inner London will rise to £20,000 (up 9 per cent. from the previous year).