HC Deb 10 February 1989 vol 146 cc838-9W
Mr. Harry Barnes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the numbers of full-time and part-time teachers in each college of further education in Derbyshire for each year since 1979, together with the average number of hours worked by part-time teachers in each college.

Mrs. Rumbold

The following table gives the available figures for Derbyshire colleges of further education. It shows full-time teaching staff numbers and full-time equivalent (FTE) numbers of part-time teaching staff. Figures are not readily available for the period before the academic year 1983–84 and there are data for only a sample of Derbyshire colleges from 1983–84 to 1986–87.

Mr. Harry Barnes

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give details of changes in the balance between full and part-time teaching in colleges of further education since 1979.

Mrs. Rumbold

The available data are listed below. The number of part-time lecturer hours worked in higher and further education in polytechnics and other LEA-maintained establishments in England has been converted to the full-time equivalent (fte) number of lecturers and is expressed in the table as a percentage of the total fte lecturer numbers.

Part-time lecturer fte numbers shown as a percentage of total fte lecturer numbers:

Academic year Number
1980–81 11.7
1981–82 10.9
1982–83 12.3
1983–84 13.0
1984–85 14.2
1985–86 14.9
1986–87 16.2

Source: Annual Monitoring Survey.

January each year
1973 1978 1983 1988
Pupils Percentage Pupils Percentage Pupils Percentage Pupils Percentage
Cheshire 7,049 23 8,521 34 8,236 35 12,787 53
Lancashire 12,933 31 10,415 29 14,598 43 17,404 48
Bolton 3,716 41 4,424 60 4,345 62 5,054 69
Bury 1,190 20 2,005 40 1,998 44 2,492 56
Manchester 8,181 49 7,952 72 7,395 69 9,112 75
Oldham 2,540 33 3,063 49 3,360 56 4,041 65
Rochdale 3,246 46 3,464 57 3,411 57 3,809 62
Salford 3,435 38 3,921 61 4,378 78 4,964 85
Stockport 2,834 28 3,259 43 3,013 42 3,277 45
Tameside 2,102 28 2,980 49 3,740 69 4,277 75
Trafford 1,782 24 784 14 875 17 1,175 22
Wigan 3,678 31 4,295 46 4,212 53 4,768 59
Knowsley 1,143 16 1,919 36 2,372 46 3,466 70
Liverpool 7,072 40 8,227 65 9,065 76 10,128 83
St. Helens 2,062 30 2,846 50 2,473 52 2,917 62
Sefton 3,062 31 3,975 53 4,036 59 4,310 61
Wirral 2,536 22 3,876 43 3,898 46 4,312 50
ENGLAND 355,780 24 415,065 35 458,197 40 532,933 45

The percentage figures are the number of children under five attending maintained nursery and primary schools expressed as a percentage of the estimated three and four-year-old population.