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Teachers: North West

Answer

The following table provides the headcount number and percentage of all regular teachers[1] in service in primary schools in each constituency in the North West 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
Barrow and Furness	40	371	10.8	+/-	3.2	94.4
Birkenhead	36	410	8.8	+/-	2.7	93.2
Blackburn	48	576	8.3	+/-	2.3	95.4
Blackley and Broughton	47	573	8.2	+/-	2.2	96.0
Blackpool and Cleveleys	31	319	9.7	+/-	3.3	97.6
Blackpool South	41	379	10.8	+/-	3.1	98.2
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
Bootle	40	454	8.8	+/-	2.6	99.3
Burnley	28	414	6.8	+/-	2.4	98.8
Bury North	30	355	8.5	+/-	2.9	88.1
Bury South	39	368	10.6	+/-	3.1	84.8
Carlisle	30	345	8.7	+/-	3.0	94.5
Cheadle	29	437	6.6	+/-	2.3	98.2
Chorley	39	409	9.5	+/-	2.8	99.5
City of Chester	32	400	8.0	+/-	2.7	98.0
Congleton	25	353	7.1	+/-	2.7	98.3
Copeland	27	283	9.5	+/-	3.4	94.6
Crewe and Nantwich	37	464	8.0	+/-	2.5	98.5
Denton and Reddish	18	368	4.9	+/-	2.2	94.6
Eddisbury	36	430	8.4	+/-	2.6	98.6
Ellesmere Port and Neston	29	370	7.8	+/-	2.7	96.1
Fylde	30	292	10.3	+/-	3.5	97.7
Garston and Halewood	30	390	7.7	+/-	2.6	95.1
Halton	45	419	10.7	+/-	3.0	98.4
Hazel Grove	21	316	6.6	+/-	2.7	98.4
Heywood and Middleton	48	485	9.9	+/-	2.7	98.0
Hyndburn	32	433	7.4	+/-	2.5	98.6
Knowsley	36	512	7.0	+/-	2.2	98.1
Lancaster and Fleetwood	41	345	11.9	+/-	3.4	98.6
Leigh	41	340	12.1	+/-	3.5	96.3
Liverpool, Riverside	23	292	7.9	+/-	3.1	89.0
Liverpool, Walton	39	465	8.4	+/-	2.5	93.9
Liverpool, Wavertree	26	463	5.6	+/-	2.1	95.7
Liverpool, West Derby	14	334	4.2	+/-	2.1	96.8
Macclesfield	31	407	7.6	+/-	2.6	98.8
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
Morecambe and Lunesdale	36	396	9.1	+/-	2.8	99.5
Oldham East and Saddleworth	33	473	7.0	+/-	2.3	89.6
Oldham West and Royton	36	505	7.1	+/-	2.2	87.5
Pendle	32	420	7.6	+/-	2.5	97.9
Penrith and The Border	41	358	11.5	+/-	3.3	92.7
Preston	30	372	8.1	+/-	2.8	99.2
Ribble Valley	45	408	11.0	+/-	3.0	99.3
Rochdale	45	498	9.0	+/-	2.5	95.0
Rossendale and Darwen	39	449	8.7	+/-	2.6	97.0
Salford and Eccles	25	379	6.6	+/-	2.5	94.5
Sefton Central	27	335	8.1	+/-	2.9	98.5
South Ribble	35	386	9.1	+/-	2.9	99.7
Southport	40	344	11.6	+/-	3.4	98.9
St. Helens North	36	383	9.4	+/-	2.9	92.3
St.Helens South and Whiston	39	418	9.3	+/-	2.8	95.7
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
Tatton	31	344	9.0	+/-	3.0	96.9
Wallasey	22	383	5.7	+/-	2.3	96.2
Warrington North	51	472	10.8	+/-	2.8	97.7
Warrington South	51	497	10.3	+/-	2.7	98.2
Weaver Vale	45	423	10.6	+/-	2.9	97.5
West Lancashire	42	421	10.0	+/-	2.9	97.5
Westmorland and Lonsdale	41	338	12.1	+/-	3.5	95.8
Wigan	27	304	8.9	+/-	3.2	89.4
Wirral South	26	275	9.5	+/-	3.5	93.9
Wirral West	22	277	7.9	+/-	3.2	96.9
Workington	20	276	7.2	+/-	3.1	90.8
Worsley and Eccles South	42	422	10.0	+/-	2.9	89.0
Wyre and Preston North	39	377	10.3	+/-	3.1	97.7
Wythenshawe and Sale East	30	441	6.8	+/-	2.4	92.6
Total North West	2,545	30,097[5]	8.5	+/-	0.3	95.6
Total England	18,795	227,513	8.3	+/-	0.1	95.5

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 (degree or higher, Bachelor of Education, Post-Graduate Certificate in Education, Certificate in Education, other qualification at NVQ level 4 or higher, relevant non-UK 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.

[5] Includes 8 teachers where parliamentary constituency is not known.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

221241

Session

2014-15

Subjects

Qualifications Primary education Teachers Science North West

Contains statistics

Yes

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