Lord Storey
Liberal Democrat
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what special measures are in place to encourage more males to train as primary school teachers.
Lord Nash
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education
We value diversity in the workforce and want to attract high quality teachers. Recent figures show that 13% of teachers in publicly funded primary schools in England are male. However, the proportion of males starting primary initial teacher training programmes in 2014/15 is 21%.
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