HC Deb 14 December 1976 vol 922 c646W
Mr. Ralph Howell

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science, further to the reply given to the hon. Member for Carshalton (Mr. Forman) on 19th November 1976, Official Report, column 778, if she will show for each year since 1970 how many of the extra jobs created in education were for teachers ad how many were administrative.

Miss Margaret Jackson

The numbers of lecturers/teachers and of all other staff employed by local education authorities in England and Wales as published by the Department of Employment for 1970 to 1974 and as released by the Joint Manpower Watch for 1975 and 1976 are as follows:

number of full-time and sandwich course students now in attendance. Additional amounts for building work may be due, but they cannot at present be estimated.

£ million Student numbers
Aberdeen 15.083 5,386
Dundee 9.658 2,781
Edinburgh 26.599 9,356
Glasgow 23.695 9,423
Heriot-Watt 6.133 2,548
St. Andrews 6.540 3,092
Stirling 5.082 2,250
Strathclyde 13.789 6,301
Total 106.579 41,137*
* Provisional.