Teacher Vacancies and Probationer Allocations 2009

Table 1: Currently advertised vacancies ⁽¹⁾ by sector and subject

	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	% of full complement
	Number of vacancies								% of full complement
Pre-school	32	23	42	52	53	19	28	8	0.7
Primary
Head, Depute Head	67	77	70	110	61	60	85	45	1.3
Other	251	261	211	310	221	213	158	108	0.6
Total Primary	321	338	281	420	282	267	243	153	0.7
of which Gaelic medium ⁽²⁾	#	#	14	5	2	2	3	2	1.4
Secondary (by main subject)
Head, Depute Head	24	21	27	25	25	28	24	24	1.5
Maths	41	34	60	70	33	50	50	22	0.8
English	33	26	63	92	45	58	42	19	0.7
Modern Languages	24	26	30	42	26	22	16	12	0.8
Science (general)	5	3	6	3	5	1	2	2	1.0
Biology	6	6	14	20	15	12	5	6	0.5
Chemistry	6	7	11	19	18	11	8	8	0.8
Physics	12	19	16	25	9	10	5	3	0.4
Geography	8	8	9	13	12	7	4	4	0.6
History	6	5	7	23	9	8	3	3	0.3
Modern Studies	4	4	18	20	3	10	5	-	-
Business Studies	13	8	16	15	14	13	10	4	0.5
Computing	12	12	10	15	9	5	4	3	0.4
Home Economics	7	6	20	31	27	20	16	10	1.1
Technical Studies	9	11	26	34	22	13	13	4	0.3
Art	9	10	9	10	14	11	7	4	0.4
Music	6	11	12	19	25	13	9	6	0.6
Religious Education	8	6	16	18	12	13	7	3	0.5
Physical Education	13	13	16	25	8	17	15	7	0.4
Drama	4	5	3	8	5	10	4	1	0.3
Learning Support	13	15	34	34	15	24	26	19	1.5
Additional Support Needs ⁽³⁾	#	#	#	#	17	13	9	7	1.1
Other	13	13	4	39	4	10	19	11	1.4
Total Secondary	280	266	428	599	371	379	303	181	0.7
of which Gaelic medium ⁽²⁾	#	#	5	2	-	-	2	2	2.7
Special	30	27	39	93	69	26	18	21	1.2
Centrally Employed ⁽⁴⁾	#	#	#	#	#	4	16	8	0.6
Total	663	654	790	1,164	774	695	607	372	0.7
Educational Psychologists ⁽²⁾
Permanent	#	#	11	13	15	20	10	27	6.9
Project based	#	#	2	1	-	1	-	2	16.9

(1) Vacancy data not available for Aberdeenshire in 2002 or 2003. Edinburgh vacancies are recorded under 'other' as it stopped to record vacancy data by subject in 2008.
(2) Gaelic medium and educational psychologist vacancy data not collected prior to 2004
(3) Additional Support Needs vacancy data collected for the first time in 2006. These may previously have been included in either the "other" category or under "Special" school vacancies. Some authorities may still be including this under "Special".
(4) Centrally employed category not collected prior to 2007

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