Skip to main content

National Professional Qualification For Headship

Volume 406: debated on Tuesday 3 June 2003

The text on this page has been created from Hansard archive content, it may contain typographical errors.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of new entrants to the NPQH leadership qualifications are (a) from ethnic minorities, (b) have disabilities and (c) are women; and what the percentages are in the workforce as a whole. [115590]

63 per cent. of new entrants to the National Professional Qualification for Headship (NPQH) are women. Information about ethnicity and disability is provided on a voluntary basis, but of those who supplied this information, 3 per cent. are from ethnic minorities and 1 per cent. consider themselves disabled within the terms of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995.In the workforce as a whole, 68.7 per cent. of teachers are women. Data on ethnic minorities and disabilities are not held centrally.