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Teacher Assaults

Mr. Walker: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will introduce a national register for the recording of assaults committed against teachers by parents and pupils; and if she will make a statement. [3217]

Jacqui Smith: Schools are required to report significant injuries to staff resulting from acts of violence to the Health and Safety Executive. In addition, the data my Department collects about exclusions include a reason for each exclusion, with violence to adults as a separately-identified reason. These arrangements strike a sensible balance between
 
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gathering data to inform national policy and imposing administrative burdens on schools. It would be wrong to shift the balance towards more work for schools.

Mr. Jenkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teachers in Tamworth have been assaulted by pupils in each year since 1997. [3330]

Jacqui Smith: The information requested is not collected centrally.

Teacher Qualifications

Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of (a) citizenship and (b) personal, social and health education teachers giving financial literacy lessons at Key Stages 3 and 4 had (i) GCSE or O level, (ii) A level and (iii) degree level qualifications in mathematics in 2003/04. [3238]

Jacqui Smith: The Information requested is not available. Information on the post A level qualification in Citizenship and PSHE for those teaching these subjects can be found in tables 24 and 25 of The Statistics of Education, School Workforce in England Volume, 2004 edition, a copy of which have been placed in the House of Commons Library. Alternatively it may be accessed at the following URL: http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/VOL/v000443/index.shtml

It is a requirement for the attainment of qualified teacher status to have GCSE Mathematics at grade A to C or an equivalent qualification.

Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what qualifications are required of (a) citizenship and (b) personal, social and health education teachers giving financial literacy lessons at Key Stages (i) 3 and (ii) 4. [3239]

Jacqui Smith: A programme of Initial Teacher Training (ITT) for Citizenship teachers has been running since September 2000 to gradually grow the number of specialists in the subject; over 850 specialists will have been trained by the end of the current academic year. The ITT courses include a component on financial capability. The Department introduced a national programme for certificating effective Continuing Professional Development in PSHE in 2000, which provides the framework for teachers to improve their classroom practice in financial education. The Department is currently piloting a similar programme for citizenship teachers in three centres in England.

Truancy (Yorkshire)

David Davis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many children in the East Riding of Yorkshire played truant from school in each of the last five years. [3584]

Jacqui Smith: The information requested on the number of pupils that missed at least a half day due to unauthorised absence in schools in the East Riding of Yorkshire LEA is as follows.
 
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	1999/2000	2000/01	2001/02	2002/03	2003/04
Maintained primary and secondary schools
Number absent	6,184	4,641	5,761	5,750	5,104
As percentage of pupils of compulsory school age	14.0	10.4	12.8	12.7	11.5
Maintained primary schools
Number absent	2,013	1,766	1,956	1,725	1,759
As percentage of pupils of compulsory school age	8.3	7.2	8.1	7.1	7.5
Maintained secondary schools
Number absent	4,171	2,875	3,805	4,025	3,345
As percentage of pupils of compulsory school age	21.0	14.3	18.3	19.2	16.0

Unauthorised absence includes other forms of absence such as lateness, holidays during term time not authorised by the school, absence where reason is not yet established and truancy.

University Students

Mr. Clappison: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of students admitted to university to read (a) mathematics, (b) sciences and (c) modern foreign languages were from (i) grammar schools, (ii) state schools and (iii) independent schools in each of the last 10 years. [1740]

Bill Rammell: The latest available information is shown in the table. Comparable information for the intervening years is not held centrally by the Department. Although the majority of full-time undergraduates apply through UCAS, a small proportion, mostly mature students, apply direct to institutions and will therefore be excluded from the figures in the table, as will part-time students who are also not covered by UCAS application scheme.
Previous school type of accepted applicants to full-time undergraduate courses at UK institutions by subject

	Year of entry
	1994		2004
	Numbers	Percentage(66)	Numbers	Percentage(66)
Mathematical sciences(67)
Grammar	905	6.3	985	5.6
Maintained schools(68)	4,820	33.2	6,920	39.0
Independent	1,135	7.8	1,055	6.0
Other(69)	7,645	52.7	8,760	49.4
Total known	14,505	100.0	17,725	100.0
Unknown	2,645	—	4,440	—
Total	17,150	—	22,165	—
Sciences(70)
Grammar	2,875	8.6	3,005	7.2
Maintained schools(68)	13,060	39.1	19,110	45.9
Independent	4,800	14.4	4,840	11.6
Other(69)	12,650	37.9	14,690	34.8
Total known	33,385	100.0	41,650	100.0
Unknown	4,250	—	7,700	—
Total	37,635	—	49,350	—
Modern Foreign Languages(71)
Grammar	385	10.5	510	10.4
Maintained schools(68)	1,165	32.0	1,970	40.4
Independent	1,005	27.6	1,380	28.3
Other(69)	1,085	29.8	1,015	20.8
Total known	3,635	100.0	4,875	100.0
Unknown	595	—	665	—
Total	4,230	—	5,540	—

⁽⁶⁶⁾Percentages based on those students who recorded their previous school/college. Component percentages may not sum to totals because of rounding.
⁽⁶⁷⁾Includes mathematics, statistics, and computer science/studies.
⁽⁶⁸⁾Includes former grant maintained schools.
⁽⁶⁹⁾Includes students from FE sector institutions.
⁽⁷⁰⁾Includes biological, veterinary and physical sciences, and combined sciences.
⁽⁷¹⁾Includes European and non-European modern languages.
Source:
Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS). UCAS covers all HE institutions in the UK as well as FE colleges with significant HE provision. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 5.




 
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Tuition Fees

Mr. Stephen O'Brien: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the maximum level of financial support available to undergraduates at higher education institutions in England from (a) low, (b) medium and (c) high income backgrounds will be from 2006. [3100]

Bill Rammell: The level of financial support available will depend on a number of things including the level of fees being charged by the higher education institution and the circumstances of the individual student.

But, whatever their circumstances, from 2006 students will not have to pay tuition fees while they are studying. Instead, all students will be able to take out a loan to cover their fees; that loan will not be based on income.

In addition, new students with household incomes between £16,000 and £33,000 will be eligible for the new non-repayable maintenance grant of up to £2,700. Institutions wishing to charge fees of the maximum £3,000 will have to provide a minimum institutional bursary of £300 to students entitled to the full £2,700 maintenance grant; many institutions will be offering much more than this.

The arrangements for repayment of maintenance and fee loans are fair and equitable. The graduate's repayments are at zero real rate of interest, related directly to earnings and only required when earnings are greater than £15,000 per year.

Mr. Hands: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how much was raised through student tuition fees in Hammersmith and Fulham constituency in (a) 1997, (b) 2001 and (c) 2004. [3420]

Bill Rammell: Students on full-time undergraduate courses and their families are expected to make a contribution towards the cost of their tuition only if they can afford to do so. The amount of the contribution depends on family income.
 
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The amount of private contributions to tuition fees by students from Hammersmith and Fulham, and England and Wales for academic year 2004/05 are given in the table.
Private contribution to tuition fees in Hammersmith and Fulham, and England and Wales for academic year 2004/05

Academic year 2004/05(72)	£ million
Hammersmith and Fulham	0.8
England and Wales	424.7

⁽⁷²⁾Provisional (as at 8 June 2005)
Source:
Student Loans Company

Private contributions to tuition fees were introduced in 1998/99 therefore no data are available for academic year 1997/98.

Up to 2002/03, data were collected from LEAs to produce national estimates and the data collection exercise did not allow for the production of firm figures below this level; data at local education authority or regional level are therefore not available for 2001/02.
 
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