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Scottish class sizes and teacher numbers to be revealed Scottish teacher numbers continue to fall
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The latest facts and figures on class sizes, teacher numbers, and pupil exclusions will be revealed by the Scottish government. The number of Scottish teachers has continued to fall, the latest education statistics have revealed.
The education day statistics are due to be published online in a single document later. There were 51,441 full time equivalent teachers in 2011, 657 fewer than the revised 2010 figure of 52,098.
For the first time they will reveal the state of school buildings. Pupil to teacher ratios also rose slightly, from 13.3 in 2010 to 13.4 in 2011.
Last year, Education Secretary Mike Russell said that almost 22% of P1, P2 and P3 classes had been capped at 18, or had two teachers. Education Secretary Mike Russell said the current number of teachers in local authority schools exceeded the local government agreement target of 51,131.
The figures also said the pupil-teacher ratio in schools had increased from 13.2 to 13.3 in 2010. The SNP minister earlier defended the mass publication of the education data.
The latest update will show how many teachers are employed in Scotland's education sector. He told BBC radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland that the move was not about burying bad news.
In 2010, the number of full-time teachers fell by almost 800 on the previous year - from 52,984 to 52,188. Mr Russell said: "When I became education secretary we used to publish education statistics every second day, one was up, one was down, it was impossible to get any real view of what was taking place. Now we publish education statistics twice a year."
The government document will also analyse what pupils do after leaving school.
It will say whether they go to college, university, take jobs or secure apprenticeships.
In 2010 the number of pupils who were suspended or permanently excluded from school for bad behaviour fell by 11% and absence, both authorised and unauthorised, went up fractionally from 6.6% last year to 6.7%.