HC Deb 16 July 1986 vol 101 cc521-2W
Mr. Andrew F. Bennett

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list in the Official Report the full-time and full-time equivalent teaching staff employed in schools, non-advanced further education, advanced further education and universities for the last year for which figures are available, together with estimates for the next three years.

Mr. Chris Patten

The information available is set out in the tables. The first table covers institutions other than universities. It is not possible to make projections for 1987–88 and subsequent years, since levels of local authority current expenditure remain to be determined.

The second table covers universities, and gives figures for the most recent year for which they are available. The Department does not make estimates of future levels of university teaching staff members.

Institutions other than Universities (England) Teaching Staff Numbers ('000s at full-time equivalents)
Academic Years
*1985–86 Actual †1986–87 Planned
Schoolteachers
(i) Nursery, primary and secondary 403 394
(ii) Special 17 17
Lecturers
(i) Maintained sector non-advanced further education (NAFE) ‡59.9 57.8
(ii) Maintained sector advanced further education (AFE) ‡25.4 23.3
(iii) Grant-aided sector 2.4 2.4
* Figures for the grant-aided sector arc taken from returns made to the Department of Education and Science by colleges. All other figures are taken from form 618G (an annual return of the numbers of teaching staff employed by local authorities) for 1985–86.
† Figures for 1986–87 have been calculated from plans for student numbers and student: staff ratios contained in the 1986 public expenditure White Paper (Cmnd, 9702).
‡ The division of total lecturer numbers between maintained sector advanced and non-advanced further education relies on data from the annual monitoring survey of FE institutions. This will not be available for 1985–86 until Autumn 1986, and the figures shown are estimates.

Universities(Great Britain)
Academic Staff Numbers ('000s)
Academic Year Actual
1984–85
(i) Full-time
(a) wholly university financed 29.6
(b) other 12.9
(c) total 42.5
(ii) Part-time
(a) teaching and research 2.4
(b) research only 0.8
(c) total 3.2

Notes: (a) Full-time equivalent figures for part-time staff are not available. (b) All figures are taken from returns made to the University Grants Committee by universities.