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.
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.