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Greg Mulholland: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many people are in their final year of training to become (a) primary and (b) secondary school teachers. [108410]
Jim Knight [holding answer 13 December 2006]: The following table provides the number Initial Teacher Training (ITT) trainees who are in their final year of training in the academic year 2006/07, for primary and secondary courses.
| Mainstream ITT: Number of final year trainees | |
| 2006/07 trainees | |
| Notes: 1. Figures for mainstream final year trainees include Universities and other HE institutions, SCITT and OU, but exclude employment based routes. 2. These figures cover actual registrations for the autumn term and expected registrations for the remainder of the 2006/07 academic year. These figures include trainees who are resitting all or part of their ITT programme. 3. Figures for 2006/07 are provisional and are subject to change 4. Figures are individually rounded to the nearest 10. Source: ITT Trainee Number Census | |
Mrs. May: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what funding the Department provided to Teachers’ TV in each year since its inception; and what proportion of the total budget this funding represents. [104298]
Jim Knight: Teachers’ TV aims to help raise standards in classrooms by helping to share good practice, support continuing professional development, offer classroom resources, and provide education news and information. The channel’s target audience includes teachers, school leaders, teaching assistants and school governors.
In the channel’s first operating year, which ended 31 July 2005, the Department provided funding of £19,879,342.
In the channel's second operating year, which ended 31 July 2006, the Department provided funding of £15,993,920.
The cost of funding Teachers' TV represented 0.055 per cent. of the Department’s total Budget(1) in its first operating year, and 0.039 per cent. in its second operating year.
(1 )Total Central Government Spending on Education in England (as set out in Annex A of the Department’s Annual Report 2006)
Teaching Vacancies
Mr. Waterson: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teaching vacancies there are in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in Eastbourne constituency. [105106]
Jim Knight: Information on teacher vacancies is not available at constituency level but is available by local authority.
Eastbourne constituency is included within East Sussex local authority.
There were 10 full-time vacancies in maintained nursery/primary schools and seven full-time vacancies in maintained secondary schools in East Sussex local authority, in January 2006.
These figures show advertised vacancies for full-time permanent appointments (or appointments of at least one term's duration) including those being filled on a temporary basis of less than one term.
Truth in Science
Stephen Williams: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimate he has made of the number of schools which have (a) been contacted by and (b) received materials from Truth in Science Ltd. [105170]
Jim Knight: The Department does not collect information on the number of schools that have been contacted by Truth in Science Ltd. We understand however that the ‘truth in science’ packs have been sent to every secondary school in the United Kingdom.
United Learning Trust
Sarah Teather: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how much sponsorship money has been paid to each academy run by the United Learning Trust; and on what date each payment was made; [105431]
(2) how much public money his Department has paid to the United Learning Trust. [105432]
Jim Knight: In answer to her first question I would like to refer the hon. Member to my answer to PQ107604 and PQ107606. These replies contain information on sponsorship amounts for each ULT academy. In answer to her second question, the following table provides information on capital costs and revenue paid to each of the ULT academies as of December 2006.
| Capital | ||||||
| 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07( 1) | Total | |
| Revenue | ||||||
| 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07( 1) | Total | |
| (1) Up to 6 December 2006. | ||||||
University Attendance: West Chelmsford
Mr. Burns: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many and what percentage of (a) 18 year olds and (b) 19 year olds from West Chelmsford constituency attended university courses in each year since 1996-97. [108552]
Bill Rammell: The latest available figures on participation in higher education by constituency were published by the Higher Education funding Council for England in January 2005 in “Young Participation in England”, which is available from their website at:
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/hefce/2005/05—03/
This report shows participation rates for young people who enter higher education aged 18 or 19, disaggregated by constituency, for the years 1997 to 2000. The figures for West Chelmsford, and the comparable figure for England, are shown in the table. HEFCE have not produced participation rates beyond 2000.
| Young participation rate (YPR (A)) in higher education( 1) for year cohort aged 18. | ||||
| 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | |
| (1 )Covers all students studying higher education courses at UK higher education institutions and other UK institutions, for example further education colleges. (2) Cohorts are reported to the nearest 10. (3) Young participation rates for constituencies are reported to the nearest per cent. Source: Higher education funding council for England | ||||
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