To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are the current recruitment levels as a percentage of Government targets, for students to postgraduate certificate in education courses in (a) physics, (b) chemistry, (c) technology and (d) mathematics.

The Government do not give separate target intakes to the higher education funding councils for postgraduate and undergraduate teacher training courses or for individual science subjects. In 1991, recruitment to secondary undergraduate and postgraduate initial teacher training courses in science, design and technology, and mathematics, as a percentage of the planned intakes for those subjects, was as follows: