Q. Teachers: South East

Teachers: South East

(asked on 24th February 2015) - View Source

Questioner

Stephen Metcalfe
(Conservative - South Basildon and East Thurrock)

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 South East of England have a science degree.

Answered by

David Laws

This question was answered on 2nd March 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 South East 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
Aldershot	33	435	7.6	+/-	2.5	98.6
Arundel and South Downs	33	383	8.6	+/-	2.8	95.8
Ashford	61	551	11.1	+/-	2.6	97.7
Aylesbury	58	538	10.8	+/-	2.6	98.0
Banbury	44	555	7.9	+/-	2.2	95.5
Basildon and Billericay	20	379	5.3	+/-	2.3	92.7
Basingstoke	39	507	7.7	+/-	2.3	98.4
Beaconsfield	42	465	9.0	+/-	2.6	96.9
Bexhill and Battle	27	376	7.2	+/-	2.6	94.7
Bognor Regis and Littlehampton	21	338	6.2	+/-	2.6	97.1
Bracknell	44	525	8.4	+/-	2.4	96.7
Braintree	32	411	7.8	+/-	2.6	95.8
Brentwood and Ongar	22	354	6.2	+/-	2.5	90.8
Brighton, Kempton	25	373	6.7	+/-	2.5	94.7
Brighton, Pavilion	31	376	8.2	+/-	2.8	90.2
Buckingham	52	508	10.2	+/-	2.6	98.6
Canterbury	39	376	10.4	+/-	3.1	94.5
Castle Point	16	329	4.9	+/-	2.3	92.9
Chatham and Aylesford	32	457	7.0	+/-	2.3	95.4
Chelmsford	30	452	6.6	+/-	2.3	96.4
Chesham and Amersham	49	429	11.4	+/-	3.0	98.8
Chichester	43	436	9.9	+/-	2.8	96.7
Clacton	17	245	6.9	+/-	3.2	92.8
Colchester	31	476	6.5	+/-	2.2	94.8
Crawley	32	507	6.3	+/-	2.1	96.9
Dartford	33	488	6.8	+/-	2.2	95.7
Dover	50	424	11.8	+/-	3.1	98.4
East Hampshire	33	402	8.2	+/-	2.7	99.3
East Surrey	37	423	8.7	+/-	2.7	98.4
East Worthing and Shoreham	35	457	7.7	+/-	2.4	99.3
Eastbourne	29	362	8.0	+/-	2.8	95.0
Eastleigh	29	404	7.2	+/-	2.5	99.3
Epping Forest	18	338	5.3	+/-	2.4	86.9
Epsom and Ewell[5]	31	424	7.3	+/-	2.5	96.6
Esher and Walton	47	418	11.2	+/-	3.0	96.5
Fareham	33	389	8.5	+/-	2.8	99.2
Faversham and Mid Kent	26	404	6.4	+/-	2.4	96.9
Folkestone and Hythe	49	499	9.8	+/-	2.6	96.1
Gillingham and Rainham	26	398	6.5	+/-	2.4	94.3
Gosport	32	406	7.9	+/-	2.6	98.3
Gravesham	29	473	6.1	+/-	2.2	96.9
Guildford	29	388	7.5	+/-	2.6	93.9
Harlow	27	401	6.7	+/-	2.5	92.4
Harwich and North Essex	28	385	7.3	+/-	2.6	93.7
Hastings and Rye	33	412	8.0	+/-	2.6	97.2
Havant	37	386	9.6	+/-	2.9	97.2
Henley	40	459	8.7	+/-	2.6	95.0
Horsham	38	470	8.1	+/-	2.5	97.3
Hove	37	369	10.0	+/-	3.1	95.1
Isle of Wight	47	455	10.3	+/-	2.8	88.3
Lewes	28	312	9.0	+/-	3.2	96.0
Maidenhead	42	443	9.5	+/-	2.7	96.5
Maidstone and The Weald	32	425	7.5	+/-	2.5	96.6
Maldon	23	327	7.0	+/-	2.8	90.8
Meon Valley	24	337	7.1	+/-	2.7	99.7
Mid Sussex	40	484	8.3	+/-	2.5	98.4
Milton Keynes North	57	675	8.4	+/-	2.1	96.7
Milton Keynes South	59	702	8.4	+/-	2.1	97.6
Mole Valley	41	355	11.5	+/-	3.3	94.9
New Forest East	40	362	11.0	+/-	3.2	98.4
New Forest West	22	295	7.5	+/-	3.0	98.7
Newbury	48	524	9.2	+/-	2.5	97.4
North East Hampshire	40	451	8.9	+/-	2.6	99.8
North Thanet	32	414	7.7	+/-	2.6	97.6
North West Hampshire	40	441	9.1	+/-	2.7	97.6
Oxford East	37	471	7.9	+/-	2.4	94.4
Oxford West and Abingdon	43	399	10.8	+/-	3.0	95.0
Portsmouth North	39	456	8.6	+/-	2.6	98.9
Portsmouth South	25	394	6.3	+/-	2.4	98.7
Rayleigh and Wickford	25	383	6.5	+/-	2.5	92.5
Reading East	30	427	7.0	+/-	2.4	95.1
Reading West	48	504	9.5	+/-	2.6	93.0
Reigate	48	418	11.5	+/-	3.1	97.2
Rochester and Strood	41	507	8.1	+/-	2.4	92.5
Rochford and Southend East	35	445	7.9	+/-	2.5	93.1
Romsey and Southampton North	31	335	9.3	+/-	3.1	98.8
Runnymede and Weybridge	28	393	7.1	+/-	2.5	95.6
Saffron Walden	33	459	7.2	+/-	2.4	91.3
Sevenoaks	45	423	10.6	+/-	2.9	95.7
Sittingbourne and Sheppey	40	527	7.6	+/-	2.3	94.6
Slough	61	705	8.7	+/-	2.1	90.2
South Basildon and East Thurrock	23	472	4.9	+/-	1.9	94.6
South Thanet	27	395	6.8	+/-	2.5	94.0
South West Surrey	53	451	11.8	+/-	3.0	97.8
Southend West	21	358	5.9	+/-	2.4	91.1
Spelthorne	46	394	11.7	+/-	3.2	95.9
Surrey Heath	31	414	7.5	+/-	2.5	94.3
Thurrock	34	527	6.5	+/-	2.1	91.2
Tonbridge and Malling	49	492	10.0	+/-	2.6	96.9
Tunbridge Wells	24	454	5.3	+/-	2.1	96.8
Wantage	47	508	9.3	+/-	2.5	93.7
Wealden	34	400	8.5	+/-	2.7	95.7
Winchester	38	413	9.2	+/-	2.8	98.1
Windsor	33	344	9.6	+/-	3.1	93.7
Witham	29	355	8.2	+/-	2.8	94.2
Witney	38	486	7.8	+/-	2.4	96.6
Woking	47	452	10.4	+/-	2.8	95.6
Wokingham	59	493	12.0	+/-	2.9	98.0
Worthing West	40	401	10.0	+/-	2.9	98.5
Wycombe	47	487	9.7	+/-	2.6	97.2
Total South East	3,623	43,304	8.4	+/-	0.3	95.7
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 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.

[5] Excludes cases where the school is situated in the London region.

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