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Teacher Vacancies and Probationer Allocations 2010
02/06/2010
Scotland's Chief Statistician today published a range of statistics relating to teacher vacancies and probationer allocations in Scotland.
Some of the main findings are:
- There were 354 teacher vacancies advertised at February 2010, equivalent to 0.7 per cent of the full teaching complement. The number of vacancies had decreased from 372 in 2009.
- There were 95 advertised posts which had been vacant for more than three months. This represents 27 per cent of vacancies and is equivalent to 0.2 per cent of the full teaching complement. The number of these vacancies had decreased from 115 in 2009.
- As at May 5 there were 3,217 probationer teachers provisionally allocated to publicly funded schools for 2010-11, eighty nine per cent of whom were allocated to their first or second choice authorities.
Official statistics are produced by professionally independent statistical staff.