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WRITTEN QUESTION TO THE MINISTER FOR EDUCATION BY DEPUTY G.P. SOUTHERN OF ST. HELIER
ANSWER TO BE TABLED ON TUESDAY 28TH JUNE 2016
Question
Will the Minister list by subject, including science, maths and English, the number of teaching posts advertised, along with the number of applicants for each post, for September in each of the years 2013, 2014 and 2015?
What proportion of the appointments made in the years above were made to persons who did not have qualified teacher status or were not specialists in the relevant subject, and what proportion of secondary lessons were taught by subject specialists in 2015?
What proportion of the teacher workforce, primary and secondary were newly qualified teachers in each of the years 2013 to 2015?
Answer
Teaching posts advertised by phase and subject.
[Figures are for States schools only and for the whole calendar year. Some posts may have been advertised for an additional subject: For example, English with history. These have only been counted once by main subject.]
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | ||||
Subject | Ads | Apps | Ads | Apps | Ads | Apps | |
Primary | 39 | 354 | 29 | 224 | 27 | 319 | |
Secondary | |||||||
Business | 1 | 2 | 1 | 11 | - | - | |
Computing/IT | 1 | 7 | - | - | 3 | 26 | |
English | 4 | 26 | 8 | 43 | 6 | 27 | |
Geography | 3 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 33 | |
History | 1 | 4 | 4 | 53 | 2 | 3 | |
Maths | 5 | 24 | 7 | 49 | 6 | 48 | |
MFL | 4 | 26 | 8 | 41 | 1 | 11 | |
Psychology | 4 | 26 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 3 | |
Science | 6 | 20 | 9 | 87 | 7 | 36 | |
Other (incl RE, SEN, JMS, PE) | 11 | 41 | 10 | 61 | 10 | 99 | |
Recruitment of newly qualified teachers.
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
Primary | 15 | 11 | 12 |
Secondary | 10 | 13 | 4 |
Total | 25 | 24 | 16 |
Proportion of workforce | 3.4% | 3.3% | 2.2% |
All teachers recruited for States schools are now required to have qualified status. Information about teaching by specialists is not currently available.