Teachers: Retirement

(asked on 30th June 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the average retirement age was for teachers in each of the last five years for which figures are available.


Answered by
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David Laws
This question was answered on 3rd July 2014

The average age at which teachers in publicly-funded schools in England drew their retirement benefits in every year between 2008-09 and 2012-13 was 59.

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