Teachers: Vacancies
(asked on 21st March 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what estimate he has made of the number of teacher vacancies in (a) maths, (b) music and (c) science in secondary schools in each English region.
The following table provides the number of full-time classroom teacher vacancies and temporarily filled posts[1] for maths, music and science subjects in state funded secondary schools in each region in England, as at November 2016. November 2017 figures will be available in the summer.
| Maths | Music | Science |
North East | 10 | - | 10 |
North West | 40 | - | 30 |
Yorkshire and the Humber | 30 | - | 30 |
East Midlands | 30 | - | 30 |
West Midlands | 30 | - | 50 |
East of England | 40 | - | 50 |
Inner London | 20 | - | 30 |
Outer London | 30 | - | 60 |
South East | 40 | - | 70 |
South West | 10 | - | 20 |
Total England | 280 | 20 | 380 |
Source: School Workforce Census
Figures have been rounded to nearest 10.
’-‘ nil or negligible.
[1] Includes advertised vacancies for full-time permanent appointments (or appointments of at least one term’s duration) plus vacancies filled on a temporary basis by a teacher on a contract of less than one year.