§ Ms KellyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many students graduated from a physical education teaching course in each year since 1995. [154481]
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§ Ms Estelle MorrisThe numbers of people obtaining qualified teacher status in England who had physical education as a recorded subject in their teaching courses are as follows:
Year BEd PGCE 1995 737 721 1996 747 678 1997 847 711 1998 684 848 19991 678 769 1Provisional The numbers 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 2,300 in the number of people recruited to train as 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 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).