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Dept for Education and Employment

Answer

Mr. Cotter: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many teachers were employed in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in the North Somerset local education authority in each year since 1979. [142946] Ms Estelle Morris: Information on teacher numbers in the North Somerset local education authority prior to 1997 is not available, due to the fact that this particular authority was formed as part of the local government reorganisation of 1 April 1996. The full-time equivalent of teachers (including short-term supply) employed in North Somerset local authority on the third Thursday in January each year since the authority was created is as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1997 1998 1999 2000 Nursery/primary 660 670 690 660 Secondary 780 740 740 730 Total 1,440 1,410 1,430 1,390 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Note: All numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10 The number of regular teachers in maintained schools increased by 6,900 between January 1998 and January 2000. A DfEE survey of maintained secondary schools in England in the first week of September 2000 indicated that there were about 1,000 secondary teacher vacancies. There was a growth of 2,000 in the number of people training to be teachers between 1999-2000 and 2000-01, the first such increase since 1992-93.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

360 c396-7W; 142946

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Staff Primary education Teachers Secondary education Vacancies Somerset

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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