Teachers: Greater Manchester

(asked on 16th December 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many primary school teachers in each parliamentary constituency in Greater Manchester have a science degree.


Answered by
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David Laws
This question was answered on 22nd December 2014

The following table provides the headcount number and percentage of all regular teachers[1] in service in primary schools in each constituency in Greater Manchester with a degree in a science subject in November 2013. This is the latest information available.

Name of Constituency

Number of teachers

with science degree[2]

Number of teachers with a qualification recorded[3]

Percentage with a science

qualification

Confidence interval[4]

Percentage of teachers with qualification

recorded

Altrincham and Sale West

31

382

8.1

+/-

2.7

88.2

Ashton-under-Lyne

23

415

5.5

+/-

2.2

95.0

Blackley and Broughton

47

573

8.2

+/-

2.2

96.0

Bolton North East

36

416

8.7

+/-

2.7

98.8

Bolton South East

42

516

8.1

+/-

2.4

98.5

Bolton West

26

404

6.4

+/-

2.4

99.0

Bury North

30

355

8.5

+/-

2.9

88.1

Bury South

39

368

10.6

+/-

3.1

84.8

Cheadle

29

437

6.6

+/-

2.3

98.2

Denton and Reddish

18

368

4.9

+/-

2.2

94.6

Hazel Grove

21

316

6.6

+/-

2.7

98.4

Heywood and Middleton

48

485

9.9

+/-

2.7

98.0

Leigh

41

340

12.1

+/-

3.5

96.3

Makerfield

24

324

7.4

+/-

2.9

95.9

Manchester Central

33

610

5.4

+/-

1.8

96.5

Manchester, Gorton

38

494

7.7

+/-

2.3

98.0

Manchester, Withington

28

388

7.2

+/-

2.6

97.0

Oldham East and Saddleworth

33

473

7.0

+/-

2.3

89.6

Oldham West and Royton

36

505

7.1

+/-

2.2

87.5

Rochdale

45

498

9.0

+/-

2.5

95.0

Salford and Eccles

25

379

6.6

+/-

2.5

94.5

Stalybridge and Hyde

31

432

7.2

+/-

2.4

97.3

Stockport

31

378

8.2

+/-

2.8

97.2

Stretford and Urmston

35

385

9.1

+/-

2.9

80.2

Wigan

27

304

8.9

+/-

3.2

89.4

Worsley and Eccles South

42

422

10.0

+/-

2.9

89.0

Wythenshawe and Sale East

30

441

6.8

+/-

2.4

92.6

Total Greater Manchester

889

11,416

7.8

+/-

0.5

93.7

Total England

18,795

227,513

8.3

+/-

0.1

Note: Figures are as reported in School Workforce Census, they have not been scaled up.

Source: School Workforce Census

[1] Includes qualified and unqualified teachers.

[2] Includes teachers with a first or higher science degree but excluding those with a science PGCE where no record of a science degree exists and those with a BEd in sciences.

[3] Those recorded with a qualification in any subject (the total in the sample from which the rate is calculated).

[4] The range within which we can be 95% confident that the true value exists.

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