§ Mrs. MayTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will set out, for each month since May 1997, for each local education authority in England, the teaching post vacancies notified to his Department. [153279]
§ Ms Estelle Morris[holding answer 12 March 2001]: Information on teacher vacancies in January each year since 1995, for each local education authority, is shown in table 42 of Statistics of Education, Teachers, England and Wales, 2000 edition, which is available in the House of Commons Library.
Teacher vacancies for each local authority are collected only for January of each year.
The number of regular teachers (excluding short-term supply) in the maintained schools sector in England at January 2000 was 404,600, the highest for 10 years and 6,900 higher than January 1998.
There was a growth of more than 2,000 in the number of people training to be teachers between 1999–2000, and 2000–01, the first such increase since 1992–93.
§ Mr. JoyceTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) what guidance his Department provides to schools on publications in which teaching vacancies are advertised; [155603]
(2) what guidance his Department provides to colleges on the publications in which teaching vacancies are advertised. [155625]
§ Ms Estelle MorrisMy Department does not publish guidance on this matter, which is best decided by schools and colleges themselves in the light of their individual circumstances and requirements.