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Dept for Education and Employment

Answer

Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many (a) primary and (b) secondary school teachers left the teaching profession before reaching the age of 40 in each of the last 10 years; and how many of them did so within five years of qualifying as a teacher. [126315] Ms Estelle Morris: The following table shows the number of maintained nursery, primary and secondary full and part-time teachers in England who left the maintained nursery, primary, secondary, special and PRU sector{1, 2} under age 40 and the number who left within five years of qualifying as a teacher. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Nursery/primary teachers aged under 40 Secondary teachers aged under 40 Financial year All leavers Leavers within five All leavers Leavers within five years years 1988-89 6,300 1,300 10,000 2,300 1989-90 5,900 1,800 8,900 2,400 1990-91 6,800 2,200 8,600 2,400 1991-92 5,900 2,000 6,600 2,000 1992-93 5,100 1,800 5,700 1,800 1993-94 4,600 1,800 5,100 1,700 1994-95 5,100 2,100 5,400 2,100 1995-96 4,400 1,900 5,000 2,300 1996-97 4,700 2,100 4,900 2,400 1997-98 5,000 2,200 5,100 2,500 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Excludes those leaving sixth form colleges. Sixth form colleges became part of the FE sector as at 1 March 1993. {2} Includes those taking ill-health retirement, barred and dying in service, which amounts to less than 200 in either phase for any year Note: Figures are rounded to the nearest 100. There was a growth in total numbers of 3,500 full-time equivalent regular teachers in maintained nursery/primary schools and 3,100 full-time equivalent regular teachers in maintained secondary schools between January 1998 and January 2000.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

126315; 352 c544W

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Primary education Teachers Secondary education Resignations

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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