§ Mr. BeggsTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many students graduated from teacher training colleges in each of the last five years; and how many were employed in a school within one year of graduating. [1453041
§ Jane KennedyThe number of students who have graduated from the Higher Education Institutions in each of the last five years are shown in the following table. The Department does not maintain statistics on the number of graduates employed in schools within one year of graduating.
§ Mr. Ivan LewisThe behaviour and attendance strand of our Key Stage 3 Strategy provides audit and training materials and expert advice. These are freely available to all secondary schools. In addition, our Behaviour Improvement Programme (BIP) funds a range of measures to support schools in disadvantaged areas facing the greatest challenges. 60 BIP local education authorities (LEAs) are each receiving about 1.4 million in the current financial year to fund these measures. Individual LEAs and Excellence in Cities partnerships 471W decide which measures to adopt and which schools to involve in the light of local needs. They give priority to a core group of schools, typically four secondary schools and about 20 linked primary schools in an LEA. But in many LEAs other schools also benefit from BIP measures, which include multi-agency Behaviour and Education Support Teams and extra Learning Support Units, Learning Mentors and Education Welfare Officers as well as locally-devised initiatives.