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<p>The information is not available in the format requested.</p><p> </p><p>The number
of science teachers in state funded secondary schools in England has increased between
2010 and 2014; from 56,700 to 57,300.</p><p> </p><p>Last year, the Prime Minister
announced that we would be spending up to £67m on teacher training and development
in priority Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects. This
includes training an additional 2,500 mathematics and physics teachers, and improving
the subject knowledge of a further 15,000 non-specialist serving teachers in those
subjects.</p><p> </p><p>The NAO Report, following their inquiry into ‘Training New
Teachers’, stated ‘The overall number of teachers has kept pace with changing pupil
numbers, and the retention of newly qualified teachers has been stable’. The report
is available from the following web link: <a href="https://www.nao.org.uk/report/training-new-teachers/"
target="_blank">https://www.nao.org.uk/report/training-new-teachers/</a></p><p> </p>
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