HC Deb 08 September 2003 vol 410 cc133-4W
Mr. Willis

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teachers with qualified teacher status were working(a) full-time and (b) part-time in (i) secondary, (ii) primary and (iii) special schools in each year from 1992–93 to 2002–03. [126935]

Mr. Miliband

The number of regular teachers with qualified teacher status in England broken down by phase and split by full and part-time full time equivalents (FTE) is given in the following table. Other regular teachers, of which there were 15,200 in maintained schools in England in 20031, are teachers who hold recognised school-teaching qualifications from countries outside the European Economic Area; trainees on employment-based routes to QTS (the Graduate, Registered and Overseas-Trained Teacher Programmes); and instructors with special qualifications or experience of a particular subject.

Mr. Miliband

The table shows the available data for the Graduate and Registered Teacher Programmes and the Overseas-Trained Teacher Programme. No data relating to earlier employment-based training routes, such as the Licensed Teacher Scheme, are available in the form requested. No data on numbers of Qualified Teacher Status awards made to employment-based trainees is available for years before 2000/01.