Dr. ThomasTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) if he will give the numbers of full-time academic posts of each university in Scotland in each year since 1977–78, differentiating between those posts wholly funded by the university, those externally funded research posts, and those externally funded non-research posts;
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Full-time academic staff in each university 1986–87 Full-time staff Teaching and research Research only Wholly university financed Others Wholly university financed Others 1 Aston 264 9 4 72 2 Bath 358 5 12 125 3 Birmingham 903 142 34 441 4 Bradford 384 31 6 86 5 Bristol 715 56 32 393 6 Brunel 246 10 6 120 7 Cambridge 1,133 20 21 664 8 City 276 31 3 76 9 Durham 413 33 29 133 10 East Anglia 378 42 4 89 11 Essex 260 12 6 93 12 Exeter 460 9 13 71 13 Hull 416 12 2 86 14 Keele 236 28 10 37 15 Kent 344 22 3 103 16 Lancaster 469 3 10 124 17 Leeds 952 146 78 312 18 Leicester 445 71 4 197 19 Liverpool 830 62 18 227 20 London Business School 41 8 0 29 21 London University 4,510 971 180 2,788 22 Loughborough 470 44 2 213 23 Manchester Business School 33 1 3 13 24 Manchester University 1,254 103 18 403 25 Manchester Institute of Science and Technology 430 6 7 267 26 Newcastle 809 61 16 319 27 Nottingham 679 74 28 333 28 Oxford 1,194 134 86 623 29 Reading 520 50 13 192 30 Salford 347 29 7 75 31 Sheffield 800 17 25 222 32 Southampton 644 49 23 352 33 Surrey 322 24 12 227 34 Sussex 408 11 12 186 35 Warwick 524 27 10 207 36 York 303 11 9 158 37 Total England 22,770 2,364 746 10,056 38 Aberystwyth University College 197 96 20 59 39 Bangor University College 273 11 20 73 40 Cardiff University College 503 8 12 127 41 St. David's Lampeter 67 1 0 2 42 Swansea University College 380 14 3 85 43 University of Wales College of Medicine 135 60 11 131 44 University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology 258 3 16 73 45 Total Wales 1,813 193 82 550 46 Total England and Wales 24,583 2,557 828 10,606 (2) if he will give the numbers of full-time academic posts of each university in England and Wales in each year since 1977–78, differentiating between those posts wholly funded by the university, those externally funded research posts, and those externally funded non-research posts.
Mr. JacksonThe information for 1986–87 is given in the following table. Figures for earlier years from 1980–81 have been published in volume 1, "University Statistics" published by the University Statistical Record. Figures for 1977–78 and 1978–79 are contained in "Statistics of Education: Universities" published by the University Grants Committee. Copies of these documents are in the Library.
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Teaching and research Research only Wholly university financed Others Wholly university financed Others 47 Aberdeen 536 68 20 171 48 Dundee 318 30 6 159 49 Edinburgh 1,098 125 38 467 50 Glasgow 990 59 33 384 51 Heriot Watt 289 6 10 110 52 St. Andrews 323 13 2 82 53 Stirling 256 15 5 80 54 Strathclyde 643 28 27 278 55 Total Scotland 4,453 344 141 1,731 56 Total Great Britain 29,036 2,901 965 12,337 57 Queen's University Belfast 581 162 77 142 58 University of Ulster 764 12 5 52 59 Total Northern Ireland 1,345 174 82 194 60 Total United Kingdom 30,381 3,075 1,051 12,531