§ Mr. Hordernasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many students, full and part-time, studied in polytechnics in each of the last five years; how many lecturers and employees there were; and what was the cost of their wages and salaries in each year.
§ Mr. WaldegraveThe table following shows the information requested for the polytechnics in England and Wales. Statistics of numbers of employees other than teaching staff are not collected by the Department; estimates of these have been collected and published in the past by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy in its annual volume "Education Statistics Estimates", copies of which are in the Library.
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1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 Student enrolments (thousands)* Full-time and sandwich 113.5 118.0 120.1 120.4 124.6 Part-time 79.2 82.3 85.9 84.4 83.4
1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 Full-time equivalent 130.2 135.3 139.6 138.5 142.6 Teaching staff (thousands)† Full-time 16.2 16.3 16.9 16.8 16.7 Full-time equivalent of part time n.a n.a. n.a. 1.4 1.5 Expenditure on employees (£ million)‡ Salaries of teaching staff 124.7 137.3 153.9 175.0 226.1 Salaries of other staff 56.6 64.4 67.4 81.0 96.4 Other employee expenses 0.3 0.6 1.1 1.8 2.5 Total 181.6 202.2 222.4 257.8 325.0 *At as 1 November in the year shown. † As at mid-January in the year following the year shown. Data on numbers of part-time staff were not collected for earlier years. ‡ In the financial year starting in the year shown.