Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Wednesday, 6 Dec 2000

Vol. 527 No. 4

Written Answers. - Higher Diploma Graduates.

Róisín Shortall

Ceist:

196 Ms Shortall asked the Minister for Education and Science the number of higher diploma in education graduates in the past three years; the number of these who entered the teaching profession; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28984/00]

Minister for Education and Science (Dr. Woods)

The most up-to-date figures available on the number of graduates from the higher diploma in education are as follows:

Year	Graduates
1997	827
1998	854
1999	945

The Higher Education Authority undertakes an annual survey of the first destinations of award recipients in higher education in April of the year following graduation. The most recent cohort of graduates for whom survey results are available concerns those who graduated in 1998. Details of the survey responses from higher diploma graduates from 1996 to 1998 are set out below by reference to graduates who reported that they were employed in teaching, whether in Ireland or abroad and for those employed in teaching in Ireland, whether their employment was permanent or temporary-part-time-substitute teaching.