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Dept for Education and Employment

Answer

Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what estimate he has made of the number of teachers in (a) primary schools and (b) secondary schools who have received information technology training through National Lottery-approved training providers; and how many he expects to receive such training in the academic year 1999-2000. [93180] Mr. Charles Clarke: During the Summer Term 1999, training within the New Opportunities Fund (NOF) ICT teacher training programme has begun in approximately 20 education authorities. NOF is actively engaged in collecting data on this training from Approved Providers, and it is too early to give firm information on the number of teachers trained. These data will be available from NOF in September. Training was initiated during this term to meet the needs of those schools which are particularly advanced in the provision of ICT hardware. However, the majority of the approved training providers are not proposing to start training teachers before the next school year (1999-2000). The NOF programme will last three years, and is integrated with Government initiatives to roll out the necessary hardware in schools, for example via the Standards Fund. NOF thus expects demand to build steadily during the next school year. The programme is designed to reach all serving teachers over its lifetime.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

93180; 336 c181-2W

Session

1998-99

Subjects

ICT Education Local education authorities National Lottery Primary education Schools Teachers Secondary education

Contains statistics

Yes