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Shortage of men in primary schools [belfasttelegraph.co.uk]

Published: 01 September 2011

One in four primary schools still has no male teachers, despite rising numbers of men entering the profession, new figures have shown.

A quarter (25.6%) of teachers qualifying this year were men, up 2.4% since 2008, according to statistics published by the General Teaching Council for England (GTC). But only one in eight (12.4%) teachers working in primary schools are male.

There were 26,208 men working as teachers in primary schools as of March 31 this year, compared with 185,023 women, the figures show.

In total, around 4,000 primaries in England, or one in four, have no registered male teachers, the GTC said, despite the numbers dropping by 130 schools this year. There are only six state secondary schools in England without men in the classroom, the regulator added.

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