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Dept for Education and Employment

Answer

Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many teachers left the teaching profession in each of the last five years. [126316] Ms Estelle Morris: The number of full and part-time teachers leaving the maintained nursery, primary, secondary, special and PRU sector{1} in England in each of the last five years for which data are available are shown in the following table. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Moving out of service{ 2} Retirements{ 3} Other{ 4} 1993-94 17,100 14,100 400 1994-95 18,000 14,100 400 1995-96 15,600 15,200 400 1996-97 15,800 16,900 400 1997-98 17,100 16,800 300 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Excludes those leaving sixth form colleges. Sixth form colleges became part of the FE sector at 1 April 1993. {2} Teachers leaving the maintained nursery, primary, secondary, special and PRU sector to join FE, HE or the independent schools sector have been shown as moving out of service. {3} Teachers retiring but then rejoining the maintained nursery, primary, secondary, special and PRU sector have not been shown as moving out of service or retiring. Teachers retiring and then joining the FE, HE or the independent schools sector have been shown as moving out of service. {4} Teachers barred from service and dying in service. Note: Figures are rounded to the nearest 100. There has been a growth of 6,900 full time equivalent regular teachers in the maintained school sector between January 1998 and January 2000.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

126316; 352 c423-4W

Session

1999-00

Subjects

Early retirement Teachers Resignations

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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