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Teachers: Greater Manchester

Answer

The following table provides the headcount number and percentage of all regular teachers[1] in service in primary schools in each constituency in Greater Manchester with a degree in a science subject in November 2013. This is the latest information available.

Name of Constituency	Number of teachers with science degree[2]	Number of teachers with a qualification recorded[3]	Percentage with a science qualification	Confidence interval[4]		Percentage of teachers with qualification recorded
Altrincham and Sale West	31	382	8.1	+/-	2.7	88.2
Ashton-under-Lyne	23	415	5.5	+/-	2.2	95.0
Blackley and Broughton	47	573	8.2	+/-	2.2	96.0
Bolton North East	36	416	8.7	+/-	2.7	98.8
Bolton South East	42	516	8.1	+/-	2.4	98.5
Bolton West	26	404	6.4	+/-	2.4	99.0
Bury North	30	355	8.5	+/-	2.9	88.1
Bury South	39	368	10.6	+/-	3.1	84.8
Cheadle	29	437	6.6	+/-	2.3	98.2
Denton and Reddish	18	368	4.9	+/-	2.2	94.6
Hazel Grove	21	316	6.6	+/-	2.7	98.4
Heywood and Middleton	48	485	9.9	+/-	2.7	98.0
Leigh	41	340	12.1	+/-	3.5	96.3
Makerfield	24	324	7.4	+/-	2.9	95.9
Manchester Central	33	610	5.4	+/-	1.8	96.5
Manchester, Gorton	38	494	7.7	+/-	2.3	98.0
Manchester, Withington	28	388	7.2	+/-	2.6	97.0
Oldham East and Saddleworth	33	473	7.0	+/-	2.3	89.6
Oldham West and Royton	36	505	7.1	+/-	2.2	87.5
Rochdale	45	498	9.0	+/-	2.5	95.0
Salford and Eccles	25	379	6.6	+/-	2.5	94.5
Stalybridge and Hyde	31	432	7.2	+/-	2.4	97.3
Stockport	31	378	8.2	+/-	2.8	97.2
Stretford and Urmston	35	385	9.1	+/-	2.9	80.2
Wigan	27	304	8.9	+/-	3.2	89.4
Worsley and Eccles South	42	422	10.0	+/-	2.9	89.0
Wythenshawe and Sale East	30	441	6.8	+/-	2.4	92.6
Total Greater Manchester	889	11,416	7.8	+/-	0.5	93.7
Total England	18,795	227,513	8.3	+/-	0.1

Note: Figures are as reported in School Workforce Census, they have not been scaled up.

Source: School Workforce Census

[1] Includes qualified and unqualified teachers.

[2] Includes teachers with a first or higher science degree but excluding those with a science PGCE where no record of a science degree exists and those with a BEd in sciences.

[3] Those recorded with a qualification in any subject (the total in the sample from which the rate is calculated).

[4] The range within which we can be 95% confident that the true value exists.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

218919

Session

2014-15

Subjects

Greater Manchester Primary education Teachers Science

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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