§ Mr. SheermanTo ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many university academic and research staff are now on permanent contracts and how many on short-term contracts; and what were the figures in 1990 and 1985. [14839]
§ Mr. BoswellThis information is not held centrally.
Responsibility for employment conditions of academic and research staff, however funded, rests with the universities as employers.
The Higher Education Statistical Agency, which has now assumed responsibility for collection of statistics on staff, students and finance in all United Kingdom higher education institutions, will identify, in its 1994–95 academic staff record, data on staff numbers in institutions on permanent or other form of contract.
The Universities Statistical Record has collected staff data on behalf of former UFC-funded universities, but does not distinguish by type of staff contract.