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Further Education
Mrs. Organ: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage of further education colleges were able to give the full recommended Association of Colleges pay award for (a) 1997-98, (b) 1998-99 and (c) 1999-2000. [124175]
Mr. Wicks: This information is not held by the Department. The Association of Colleges (AoC) conducted a survey of colleges about the pay awards for 1998-99 and found that (based on a 66 per cent. response rate) 77 per cent. of colleges were able to offer their staff the AoC recommended pay award or above.
Local Government Finance
Mr. Sanders: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the funds which are available to local authorities on application, indicating those for which the Torbay Unitary Authority has successfully applied in each of the last two years. [124196]
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Ms Estelle Morris: The following table sets out the grants available to Torbay local authorities and its schools through bidding or application.
| Allocation | |
|---|---|
| 1999-2000 | |
| Advanced Skills Teachers (AST): National Programme | 65,000 |
| National Numeracy Strategy--Key Stage 3 | (1)(2)32,500 |
| Summer Numeracy Schools | (1)(3)0 |
| Family Numeracy | (1)(4)0 |
| National Grid for Learning | 262,500 |
| Education of Travellers and Displaced Persons | 0 |
| Protecting Local Authority Music Services | 23,000 |
| Expanding Local Authority Music Services | 0 |
| Annual Capital Guidelines | 1,555,075 |
| New Deal for Schools capital | 1,521,183 |
| VA capital grant | 44,700 |
| Class Size: revenue | 252,000 |
| Class Size: capital | 656,228 |
| Total | 4,412,186 |
| 2000-01 | |
| Advanced Skills Teachers (AST): National Programme | 73,500 |
| Special Educational Needs: Inclusion, EBD Speech and Language therapy | (5)0 |
| National Grid for Learning: Regional Broadband Consortia | (6)99,015 |
| Protecting Local Authority Music Services | (7)185,000 |
| Expanding Local Authority Music Services | (7)242,000 |
| Supported Early Retirement Scheme for Heads | (8)0 |
| Class Size: revenue | 452,200 |
| Class Size: capital | 10,000 |
| Annual Capital Guidelines | 1,658,849 |
| New Deal for Schools capital | 1,580,178 |
| VA capital Grant | 558,000 |
| Total | 4,858,742 |
(1) Some grants subjected to bidding in 1999-2000 were allocated by formula in 2000-01.
(2) 2000-01 formula allocation of £159,479
(3) 2000-01 formula allocation of £33,000
(4) 2000-01 formula allocation of £30,800
(5) Allocated £97,043 by formula under SEN grant 18a
(6) Allocated £365,229 in addition by formula
(7) Total of joint bid with Devon and Plymouth
(8) Offered £86,680 but declined to accept
Note:
Many additional grants to those above were allocated on a formulaic basis and so dit not require bids
Adult and Further Education Courses
Mr. Derek Foster: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many people aged over 50 years were enrolled in adult education courses and further education courses during the 1998-99 academic year in (a) England, (b) the North-East Region of England and (c) Bishop Auckland; and what proportion of the relevant population aged over 50 years this represents in each case. [124208]
Mr. Wicks [holding answer 5 June 2000]: It is not possible to provide information for Bishop Auckland as adult education data are not collected centrally at district level and data on further education students are not yet available for 1998-99. Data on the number of people aged
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over 50 years enrolled in LEA maintained adult education provision are not available. The available data for further education students are shown in the table:
| Students aged 50 and over (10) (Thousand) | Percentage of population | |
|---|---|---|
| North-East Region England | 27.5 585.7 | 3.2 3.7 |
(9) Estimated from 1998-99 provisional whole year data for FEFC-funded and non-FEFC-funded students in FE sector colleges and FEFC-funded students in external institutions.
(10) Age as at 31 August 1998
Education Maintenance Allowance
Mr. Rowlands: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what estimate he has made of the number of additional young people who stayed on at school or college in the pilot areas for the education maintenance allowances. [124376]
Mr. Wicks [holding answer 5 June 2000]: We are encouraged by the early findings from the 15 EMA pilot areas, which is why we have decided to extend the pilot to an extra 40 areas from this September. Statistical evidence gathered suggests that participation in the EMA pilot areas has increased by over five percentage points, compared with an increase of three percentage points in the control areas selected, and two percentage points nationally. We do not have information about the actual numbers involved, because the number of young people in each pilot area cohort varies from year to year.
We are undertaking a detailed evaluation exercise which will, in time, give more detailed information about the impact of the EMA on post-16 participation and achievement.
Instructors
Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, pursuant to his answer of 25 May 2000, Official Report, column 606W, on instructors, where information on basic qualifications or subject taught is held. [124767]
Ms Estelle Morris [holding answer 8 June 2000]: Governing bodies acting with the consent of the local authority have to assure themselves that staff employed as instructors have appropriate qualifications. Governing bodies and local authorities make their own arrangements for holding information about instructors' qualifications and experience.
Information on subjects taught is held by schools.
Teacher Training
Mr. Chaytor: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what plans he has to provide financial incentives to encourage more people to enter teacher training courses in further education colleges. [124691]
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Mr. Wicks: From September 2000, all students undertaking a pre-service Postgraduate Certificate of Education (Further Education) course in England, will receive a £6,000 a year training salary--equivalent to £150 a week during term time.
The payments, in common with those being paid to trainee Primary school teachers, will be trialled for one year.
School Security
Mr. Edward Davey: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment (1) what was the total amount spent by schools on security measures in 1999 (a) by constituency and (b) by local education authority; [123134]
- (2) how much the Government have awarded to local education authorities in each year since 1995 for schools to (a) implement security reviews and (b) undertake measures to make their premises more secure. [123167]
Ms Estelle Morris [pursuant to her reply, 23 May 2000, c. 438W]: A column of figures was omitted. The correct response is as follows: My Department does not collect information in the level of detail requested. Expenditure by each local education authority in England supported by the Government's Standards Fund grant for school security, which is allocated directly to authorities, is shown in Table 1 for 1998-99, the latest year for which outturn information is available, along with the total sums available to authorities for 1999-2000.
Specific grants for school security measures have been made available since 1997-98, following a recommendation from the Government's Working Group on School Security. To date, £94 million has been made available to support a variety of security measures in schools in England, to help make a safer environment for pupils and staff. A breakdown, by year, of this total funding is given in Table 2.
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Notes:
1. GEST and the Standards Fund grants for school security had grant rates. This means Government provide the set grant rate and local education authorities are required to contribute the remainder in order to take up the grant.
2. In 1997-98 and 1998-99, an additional £2 million per year was made available to schools in the grant-maintained sector via the Funding Agency for Schools.
3. The Standards Fund school security grant is allocated to local education authorities by formula and can be used on a variety of physical measures and on security related training for staff and governors. Local education authorities are required to devolve at least 70 per cent. of their grant allocation to schools, while being allowed to retain a maximum of 30 per cent. of their allocation to co-ordinate a training programme for staff and governors.
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