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Written Question
Teachers: South West
Tuesday 13th January 2015

Asked by: Stephen Gilbert (Liberal Democrat - St Austell and Newquay)

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 West have a science degree.

Answered by David Laws

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 West 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

Bath

24

319

7.5

+/-

2.9

96.1

Bournemouth East

36

336

10.7

+/-

3.3

94.9

Bournemouth West

33

354

9.3

+/-

3.0

98.3

Bridgwater and West Somerset

32

390

8.2

+/-

2.7

97.5

Bristol East

31

395

7.8

+/-

2.7

92.9

Bristol North West

54

466

11.6

+/-

2.9

92.8

Bristol South

43

484

8.9

+/-

2.5

93.8

Bristol West

45

423

10.6

+/-

2.9

89.1

Camborne and Redruth

25

343

7.3

+/-

2.8

91.5

Central Devon

45

411

10.9

+/-

3.0

97.2

Cheltenham

37

396

9.3

+/-

2.9

99.7

Chippenham

48

460

10.4

+/-

2.8

95.4

Christchurch

18

212

8.5

+/-

3.8

97.7

Devizes

44

426

10.3

+/-

2.9

95.5

East Devon

36

374

9.6

+/-

3.0

98.4

Exeter

43

406

10.6

+/-

3.0

99.0

Filton and Bradley Stoke

40

419

9.5

+/-

2.8

97.9

Forest of Dean

33

385

8.6

+/-

2.8

96.0

Gloucester

46

546

8.4

+/-

2.3

96.6

Kingswood

35

392

8.9

+/-

2.8

98.7

Mid Dorset and North Poole

27

273

9.9

+/-

3.5

96.8

Newton Abbot

34

341

10.0

+/-

3.2

97.7

North Cornwall

42

382

11.0

+/-

3.1

93.4

North Devon

57

455

12.5

+/-

3.0

96.4

North Dorset

34

371

9.2

+/-

2.9

97.6

North East Somerset

44

416

10.6

+/-

3.0

96.1

North Somerset

47

381

12.3

+/-

3.3

93.8

North Swindon

38

483

7.9

+/-

2.4

95.5

North Wiltshire

38

387

9.8

+/-

3.0

96.5

Plymouth, Moor View

35

448

7.8

+/-

2.5

97.2

Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport

31

360

8.6

+/-

2.9

94.2

Poole

30

313

9.6

+/-

3.3

99.1

Salisbury

37

366

10.1

+/-

3.1

94.6

Somerton and Frome

41

423

9.7

+/-

2.8

98.4

South Dorset

28

295

9.5

+/-

3.3

97.0

South East Cornwall

28

351

8.0

+/-

2.8

92.6

South Swindon

41

508

8.1

+/-

2.4

94.8

South West Devon

40

370

10.8

+/-

3.2

96.4

South West Wiltshire

41

408

10.0

+/-

2.9

93.2

St. Austell and Newquay

29

376

7.7

+/-

2.7

91.7

St. Ives

32

372

8.6

+/-

2.8

89.4

Stroud

53

480

11.0

+/-

2.8

96.0

Taunton Deane

48

484

9.9

+/-

2.7

99.8

Tewkesbury

41

432

9.5

+/-

2.8

96.9

The Cotswolds

32

429

7.5

+/-

2.5

96.8

Thornbury and Yate

48

351

13.7

+/-

3.6

98.9

Tiverton and Honiton

55

445

12.4

+/-

3.1

96.5

Torbay

34

399

8.5

+/-

2.7

96.8

Torridge and West Devon

40

406

9.9

+/-

2.9

97.6

Totnes

41

342

12.0

+/-

3.4

99.1

Truro and Falmouth

43

336

12.8

+/-

3.6

94.4

Wells

33

386

8.5

+/-

2.8

98.5

West Dorset

23

354

6.5

+/-

2.6

97.0

Weston-Super-Mare

45

434

10.4

+/-

2.9

93.5

Yeovil

44

449

9.8

+/-

2.8

98.5

Total South West

2,102

21,743

9.7

+/-

0.4

95.9

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.

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