Q. Teachers: East of England

Teachers: East of England

(asked on 16th January 2015) - View Source

Questioner

Julian Huppert
(Liberal Democrat - Cambridge)

Question to the Department for Education:

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

Answered by

David Laws

This question was answered on 21st January 2015

The following table provides the headcount number and percentage of all regular teachers[1] in service in primary schools in each constituency in the East of England 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
Basildon and Billericay	20	379	5.3	+/-	2.3	92.7
Bedford	17	327	5.2	+/-	2.4	95.1
Braintree	32	411	7.8	+/-	2.6	95.8
Brentwood and Ongar	22	354	6.2	+/-	2.5	90.8
Broadland	25	376	6.6	+/-	2.5	95.2
Broxbourne	38	526	7.2	+/-	2.2	97.4
Bury St. Edmunds	31	348	8.9	+/-	3.0	91.1
Cambridge	43	380	11.3	+/-	3.2	96.7
Castle Point	16	329	4.9	+/-	2.3	92.9
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich	39	423	9.2	+/-	2.8	91.4
Chelmsford	30	452	6.6	+/-	2.3	96.4
Clacton	17	245	6.9	+/-	3.2	92.8
Colchester	31	476	6.5	+/-	2.2	94.8
Epping Forest	18	338	5.3	+/-	2.4	86.9
Great Yarmouth	41	389	10.5	+/-	3.1	93.3
Harlow	27	401	6.7	+/-	2.5	92.4
Harwich and North Essex	28	385	7.3	+/-	2.6	93.7
Hemel Hempstead	40	507	7.9	+/-	2.3	94.6
Hertford and Stortford	46	541	8.5	+/-	2.4	97.3
Hertsmere	30	487	6.2	+/-	2.1	96.2
Hitchin and Harpenden	48	610	7.9	+/-	2.1	98.2
Huntingdon	42	508	8.3	+/-	2.4	96.6
Ipswich	39	505	7.7	+/-	2.3	89.1
Luton North	39	649	6.0	+/-	1.8	93.5
Luton South	31	508	6.1	+/-	2.1	92.2
Maldon	23	327	7.0	+/-	2.8	90.8
Mid Bedfordshire	20	366	5.5	+/-	2.3	97.6
Mid Norfolk	47	380	12.4	+/-	3.3	94.3
North East Bedfordshire	23	389	5.9	+/-	2.3	94.9
North East Cambridgeshire	42	409	10.3	+/-	2.9	93.8
North East Hertfordshire	41	510	8.0	+/-	2.4	95.9
North Norfolk	35	284	12.3	+/-	3.8	92.5
North West Cambridgeshire	40	600	6.7	+/-	2.0	95.7
North West Norfolk	18	349	5.2	+/-	2.3	86.4
Norwich North	27	348	7.8	+/-	2.8	93.8
Norwich South	32	373	8.6	+/-	2.8	94.7
Peterborough	36	607	5.9	+/-	1.9	97.0
Rayleigh and Wickford	25	383	6.5	+/-	2.5	92.5
Rochford and Southend East	35	445	7.9	+/-	2.5	93.1
Saffron Walden	33	459	7.2	+/-	2.4	91.3
South Basildon and East Thurrock	23	472	4.9	+/-	1.9	94.6
South Cambridgeshire	40	531	7.5	+/-	2.2	96.5
South East Cambridgeshire	45	506	8.9	+/-	2.5	96.9
South Norfolk	33	434	7.6	+/-	2.5	96.2
South Suffolk	40	367	10.9	+/-	3.2	93.4
South West Bedfordshire	29	396	7.3	+/-	2.6	94.1
South West Hertfordshire	39	548	7.1	+/-	2.2	98.6
South West Norfolk	32	385	8.3	+/-	2.8	92.8
Southend West	21	358	5.9	+/-	2.4	91.1
St. Albans	44	562	7.8	+/-	2.2	96.2
Stevenage	35	487	7.2	+/-	2.3	98.2
Suffolk Coastal	36	358	10.1	+/-	3.1	89.9
Thurrock	34	527	6.5	+/-	2.1	91.2
Watford	41	540	7.6	+/-	2.2	97.1
Waveney	36	425	8.5	+/-	2.6	89.7
Welwyn Hatfield	43	536	8.0	+/-	2.3	97.8
West Suffolk	29	394	7.4	+/-	2.6	88.5
Witham	29	355	8.2	+/-	2.8	94.2
Total East of England	1,896	25,264	7.5	+/-	0.3	94.1
Total England	18,795	227,513	8.3	+/-	0.1	95.5

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 (degree or higher, Bachelor of Education, Post-Graduate Certificate in Education, Certificate in Education, other qualification at NVQ level 4 or higher, relevant non-UK 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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