| Table 54 : Projections of Shortages and Surpluses of Teachers in | ||||||
| Primary Schools in St. Lucia, 1999/00 - 2009/10 | ||||||
| Teaching | Annual Shortages(+) | Replacement | Total | |||
| Year | Positions | or Surpluses(-) | Needs | Requirement | ||
| 1999/00 | 1081 | |||||
| 2000/01 | 1018 | -63 | 54 | -9 | ||
| 2001/02 | 961 | -57 | 51 | -6 | ||
| 2002/03 | 913 | -48 | 48 | 0 | ||
| 2003/04 | 866 | -47 | 46 | -1 | ||
| 2004/05 | 826 | -40 | 43 | 3 | ||
| 2005/06 | 1007 | |||||
| 2006/07 | 919 | 120 | 30 | -90 | ||
| 2007/08 | 859 | 60 | 33 | -27 | ||
| 2008/09 | 821 | 38 | 31 | -7 | ||
| 2009/10 | 759 | 61 | 30 | -32 | ||
| Note : | Replacement needs during a given year on account of retirement, death, dropout or | |||||
| migration,resignation etc.is about 3.0% (over the past three years) | ||||||
| of a number of teaching positions in the previous year. (see table below) | ||||||
| Last updated on January 11, 2008 by Olympia Joseph | ||||||