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Sheila Riddell, Lyn Tett, Catherine Burns, Alan Ducklin, Joanna Ferrie, Anne Stafford and Mandy Winterton
The Moray House School of Education University of Edinburgh
ISBN 0 7559 2817 2 (Web only publication)
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Contents

Acknowledgements
Executive Summary

Section 1: Introduction
Table 1.1: Key Informants: Interviews conducted
Table 1:2: Focus Groups with Practising Teachers
Table 1.3: Summary of data sources

Section 2: Literature review
Table 2.1: Percentage full-time female teachers, by sector, 1996/7 EU

Section 3: Gender balance in the teaching workforce: official statistics
Figure 3.1: Scottish primary school teachers in 2003, by age and gender (Scottish Executive, 2004).
Figure 3.2: Teachers by gender and type of school 1996-2003
(Scottish Executive 2004) No official figures were available, by gender, before 1996.
Table 3.1: Teachers in Scottish schools by gender and sector, 1994, 1998 and 2003.
Table 3.2: Primary school teachers by ethnicity and grade, 2003 (Scottish Executive, 2004).
Table 3.3: Secondary school teachers by ethnicity and grade, 2003 (Scottish Executive, 2004).
Table 3.4: Teachers by grade, type of school, seniority and gender 2003 (Scottish Executive, 2004)
Table 3.5: Secondary school teachers: main subject taught by gender, 2003 (Scottish Executive 2004)
Figure 3.3: Secondary school teachers by main subject taught (percentage values) and gender, 2003 (Scottish Executive 2004).
Figure 3.4: Mathematics by age group and gender
Figure 3.5: English by age group and gender
Figure 3.6: All Sciences Combined by age group and gender
Figure 3.7: History by age group and gender
Figure 3.8: Modern Studies by age group and gender
Figure 3.9: Students graduating from teacher training 1996-2003
Figure 3.10: Primary PGCE and BEd students by age group and gender 2002/2003
Figure 3.11: Secondary PGCE and BEd students by age group and gender 2002/2003
Table 3.6: PGCE secondary entrants by gender and subject 2002-2003
Table 3.7: PGCE secondary graduates by gender and subject 2002-2003

Section 4: Key informant interviews

Section 5: Findings from the undergraduate survey
Table 5.1: Number and percentage of respondents from the three universities
Table 5.2: Number and percentage of respondents by the course studies
Figure 5.1: Number of Respondents within each DEPCAT category
Figure 5.2: DEPCAT score of student's home postcode by university attended.
Figure 5.3: Number of respondents by age
Figure 5.4: Percentage of respondents in agreement with the statement 'I want a job which will pay a high salary, from University 1, University 2 and University 3.
Table 5.3: Percentage of respondents from three universities to the statement 'I want a job which offers family friendly conditions'.
Figure 5.5: Percentage of respondents agreeing with the statement 'I want a job with high social status, by university attended.
Table 5.4: Number and percentage of respondents who selected first and second career choices.
Figure 5.6: Have you considered a career in teaching? Question response explored using DEPCAT scores.
Table 5.5: Agreement with the statement 'Teaching is a reasonably well-paid job' by university.
Figure 5.7: Percentage of respondents in agreement with the statement 'Teaching is a reasonably well-paid job', by DEPCAT scores.
Figure 5.8 : Responses to statements about career decisions
Table 5.6: Factors influencing career choice in order of popularity.
Table 5.7: Level of agreement with statements about teaching as a career

Section 6: A View from the University Careers Service

Section 7: Teachers' views of the gender balance in teaching: focus group findings

Section 8: Conclusion

References

Glossary

Appendix A: Research Instruments
Key informant schedule (to be adapted for individual informants)
Career officers interview schedule
Current teachers focus group schedule
Undergraduate survey

The views expressed in the report are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect those of the Scottish Executive or any other organisation(s) by which the author(s) is/are employed.

The Scottish Executive is making this research report available on-line in order to provide access to its contents for those interested in the subject. The Executive commissioned the research but has not exercised editorial control over the report.

This web only report is accompanied by a summary in the Education Research Insight series "Insight 24 Gender Balance of the Teaching Workforce in Publicly Funded Schools".

The two reports are published by Information and Analytical Services Division, Scottish Executive Education Department, Victoria Quay, Edinburgh, EH6 6QQ on behalf of Teachers Division.

If you have any enquiries about these reports please contact Stewart Robertson, SEED Teachers Division (0131-244-1416.

The reports were published in November 2005.

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