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Teacher Training

Volume 454: debated on Monday 4 December 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many students successfully completed post graduate teacher training qualifications in each year since 1997, broken down by sex. (103652)

The following table provides data on students on post graduate teacher training programmes gaining qualified teacher status (QTS) by gender in academic years 1998/99 to 2004/05, the latest year for which data are available. Data for 1997/98 are not available in the format requested.

Primary and secondary post graduate teacher training students gaining QTS

1998/99

1999/2000

2000/01

2001/02

2002/03

2003/04

2004/05

Female

10,890

10,630

11,860

12,400

13,930

15,430

15,710

Male

4,280

4,210

4,290

4,540

5,250

6,030

6,070

Total

15,160

14,850

16,150

16,940

19,180

21,460

21,780

Notes:

1. Includes those trained through SCITTs, but excludes completers through employment based routes.

2. Figures are individually rounded to the nearest 10 and may not sum.

Source:

IDA performance profiles.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what information on the number of teachers teaching by subject he has collected since25 October 2006. (103733)