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Teachers: Qualifications
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many newly qualified teachers who had a grade (a) A or A*, (b) B and (c) C GCSE in (i) English and (ii) mathematics took up a post in each of the last five years. [230990]
Jim Knight: The information is not collected centrally.
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many and what percentage of those (a) going into teacher training and (b) gaining qualified teacher status in the last year for which data are available had a first degree from a Russell Group university (i) excluding and (ii) including BEd degrees. [231883]
Jim Knight: Information on the institution from which trainee teachers gained their first degree is not collected centrally.
Teachers: Training
Michael Gove: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families how many teacher trainees did not pass their teacher training in each of the last 10 years, broken down by graduate route into teacher training. [230275]
Jim Knight: Information about failure to complete initial teacher training (ITT) courses is only available for trainees in their final year of training. The following tables show the number of final year ITT trainees for each academic year between 1998/99 and 2006/07 who did not gain qualified teacher status (QTS) in their final year of training and, of these, the number who left their course before completion and the number where the outcome of QTS is unknown for:
1. Postgraduate ITT trainees;
2. Undergraduate ITT trainees; and
3. Employment-based routes (EBR) trainees.
Information relating to the number of trainees through mainstream courses gaining QTS is only available from 1998/99 onwards. The same information for trainees on employment-based routes was only collected from 2001/02 onwards.
| 1. Postgraduate ITT trainee s | ||||||
| Number of postgraduate final year trainees who have not gained QTS | ||||||
| Total number of mainstream trainees in their final year | Number of mainstream final year trainees gaining QTS | Known not to have completed course | Undefined outcome | Other outcome | Total | |
| (1) Less than 5. Notes: 1. Includes trainees from universities and other higher education institutions, school centred initial teacher training and Open universities but exclude employment-based routes (EBR). 2. Numbers are individually rounded to the nearest 10 and therefore may not sum. 3. ‘Other outcome’ includes final year trainees who are yet to complete their course, those with withheld QTS (including those where their skills test were not met, their standards were not met and where both their standards and skills test were not met) and those where the skills test has not been taken (including those whose standards were met and those whose standards were not met). Source: TDA Performance Profiles. | ||||||
| 3 . Employment-based routes (EBR) trainee s | ||||||
| Number of EBR final year trainees who have not gained QTS | ||||||
| Total number of mainstream trainees in their final year | Number of mainstream final year trainees gaining QTS | Known not to have completed course | Undefined outcome | Other outcome | Total | |
| Notes: 1. Includes trainees through employment-based routes (EBR) only. 2. Numbers are individually rounded to the nearest 10 and therefore may not sum. 3. ‘Other outcome’ includes final year trainees who are yet to complete their course, those with withheld QTS (including those where their skills test were not met, their standards were not met and where both their standards and skills test were not met) and those where the skills test has not been taken (including those whose standards were met and those whose standards were not met). Source: TDA Performance Profiles. | ||||||
International Development
Afghanistan: Fossil Fuels
Ann Winterton: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development (1) what estimate he has made of potential coal, gas and oil reserves in Afghanistan; [230846]
(2) what plans there are for the construction of small-scale coal or gas-fired power stations in Afghanistan fuelled by that country's own resources. [230847]
Mr. Douglas Alexander: There are significant, unexploited deposits of coal, gas and oil in Afghanistan and the sector therefore represents an opportunity for both economic growth and rural development. Due to their experience in this sector the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and United States are the main supporters of mining and power generation projects. The Department for International Development's (DFID) development support in Afghanistan focuses upon support to state-building, economic management and sustainable livelihoods. We currently have no plans to fund the construction of power stations in Afghanistan.
Between 2004 and 2008 DFID did, however, commit £4.2 million to support the work of the Afghanistan Geological Survey (AGS). The AGS sits within the Ministry of Mines (MoM) and is responsible for assessing Afghanistan's natural resources as well as providing assistance and advice to the MoM.
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