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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S3W-28404

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 10 November 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many trainee teachers have entered their probationary year in each year since 2006.

Upon satisfactory completion of their courses of initial teacher education student teachers are eligible for provisional registration with the General Teaching Council for Scotland and are required to complete a period of probation; most, but not all, opt to join the one year teacher induction scheme but this is not obligatory.

The following table provides relevant data.

Year	No. of Graduating Student Teachers Granted Provisional Registration	No. of Students/Probationers Entering the Teacher Induction Scheme
2006	3,907	3,491
2007	3,968	3,431
2008	3,509	3,094
2009	3,439	3,056

Question reference: S3W-28405

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 10 November 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many probationer teachers have found placements with (a) primary and (b) secondary schools in each year since 2006, broken down by (i) local authority and (ii) school.

The following table shows the number of probationers allocated to each local authority as part of the teacher induction scheme.

Information is not held centrally about the relatively small numbers of probationers who are not involved in the teacher induction scheme. Neither is information held centrally about the schools to which probationers are assigned by local authorities.

	2006		2007		2008		2009
	Primary	Secondary	Primary	Secondary	Primary	Secondary	Primary	Secondary
Aberdeen City	56	64	50	72	3	20	51	27
Aberdeenshire	59	60	66	52	100	60	110	52
Angus	40	32	40	33	42	25	47	33
Argyll and Bute	31	16	32	16	29	19	22	10
Clackmannanshire	19	21	23	18	21	14	25	16
Dumfries and Galloway	24	35	30	29	56	31	42	21
Dundee City	53	47	44	39	41	31	27	32
East Ayrshire	49	51	46	50	43	29	58	42
East Dunbartonshire	24	26	45	36	36	35	49	32
East Lothian	58	44	40	42	47	37	56	33
East Renfrewshire	59	85	49	76	49	49	56	55
Edinburgh City	138	96	128	89	118	84	113	71
Eilean Siar	8	14	12	15	6	8	8	7
Falkirk	56	63	59	44	69	36	75	31
Fife	87	90	123	86	122	85	122	69
Glasgow	161	152	141	116	134	89	139	122
Highland	67	57	64	62	61	45	73	39
Inverclyde	36	38	48	23	32	10	38	7
Jordanhill School			1	3	1	4	1	5
Midlothian	36	42	40	37	38	37	41	24
Moray	23	26	30	18	28	22	34	13
North Ayrshire	48	60	44	54	53	49	39	32
North Lanarkshire	144	132	149	126	126	94	130	68
Orkney	7	5	5	10	9	9	9	6
Perth and Kinross	49	29	41	33	42	33	40	28
Renfrewshire	75	82	79	89	86	72	64	61
Scottish Borders	21	9	37	33	25	15	27	17
Shetland Islands	13	8	12	6	10	5	14	6
South Ayrshire	40	39	46	28	40	25	39	18
South Lanarkshire	130	118	112	122	130	98	120	83
Stirling	40	50	35	51	34	37	50	44
West Dunbartonshire	54	48	51	42	51	45	46	31
West Lothian	80	67	96	63	98	62	106	50
Total	1,785	1,706	1,818	1,613	1,780	1,314	1,871	1,185
Overall Total	3,491		3,431		3,094		3,056

Question reference: S3W-28407

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 10 November 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many teacher training course places it has funded in each year since 2006.

The following table shows the number of Bachelor of Education (four year BEd) and Professional Graduate Diploma in Education (one year PGDE) course places funded by the Scottish Funding Council through its main teaching grant in the General Fund for Universities and those over baseline numbers which are funded separately by the Scottish Government.

Total Full-Time Equivalent BEd and PGDE Student Places, 2006-07 to 2009-10

Academic Year	Scottish Funding Council Funded Places	Scottish Government Funded Places	Total
2006-07	4,327	2,055	6,382
2007-08	4,407	1,255	5,662
2008-09	4,396	1,709	6,105
2009-10	4,449	1,742	6,191

Question reference: S3W-28406

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 10 November 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) primary and (b) secondary school teachers have been made redundant in each year since 2006, broken down by (i) local authority and (ii) school.

Question reference: S3W-28409

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 4 November 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many students are eligible for the full amount of income assessed loan.

Question reference: S3W-28408

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 4 November 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many students are eligible for a full young student bursary.

Question reference: S3W-28401

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 4 November 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive how many students have been refused a place in university-provided student accommodation due to overcrowding in each of the last five years, broken down by (a) university and (b) year of study.

Question reference: S3W-28402

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 3 November 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what action it is taking to help house students eligible for university-provided student accommodation who have been refused a place due to overcrowding.

Question reference: S3W-26927

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 September 2009
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 15 October 2009

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to increase the number of university places available across Scotland.

Through the Student Awards Agency for Scotland, we are financially supporting at a cost of some £8.6 million, an estimated 10 percent increase in the number of students entering Scottish higher education this year. By accepting some 3,000 additional students, Scottish universities have used the flexibilities in our higher education system to respond positively to increased demand for places during the current economic downturn.

Question reference: S3F-01948

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 October 2009
Current Status: Answered by Alex Salmond on 8 October 2009

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government is doing to provide financial support to students from lower-income backgrounds or who have dependent children.