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Head Teachers

Volume 448: debated on Wednesday 5 July 2006

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Sarah Teather

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) women and (b) people from ethnic minorities became (i) head teachers and (ii) deputy head teachers in each of the last 10 years. (80537)

Jim Knight

The table provides the number of female teachers promoted to head and deputy/assistant head teacher in each year from 1995-96 to 2002-03, the latest year for which information is available.

Information on the number of teachers promoted to head and deputy head teacher by ethnic origin is not collected centrally.

Full-time regular female teachers promoted to head and deputy/assistant head teacher, 1995-96 to 2002-03

Promotions to:

Head1

Deputy2,3

1995-96

1,400

2,110

1996-97

1,590

2,320

1997-98

1,840

2,640

1998-99

1,350

2,170

1999-2000

1,510

2,100

2000-014

1,750

5,310

2001-024

1,490

3,500

2002-034

1,350

3,430

1 Includes promotions from qualified classroom teacher grades, deputy head and, from 2001 onwards, assistant head.

2 Includes promotions from qualified classroom teacher grades.

3 Includes promotions to assistant head from 2000-01 onwards. The assistant head grade was introduced in 2000-01 and this affects comparison with earlier years.

4 Provisional estimates subject to future revision.

Source:

Database of Teacher Records.