§ Mr. SheermanTo ask the Secretary of State for Education how many professors there were in the(a) old and (b) new universities for 1988–89; and how many there are currently. [24380]
§ Mr. BoswellIn the academic year 1988–89 there were 3,442 full-time staff at professorial grade in English former University Funding Council-funded universities. The comparable figure for 1992–93 was 4,391.
In the former PCFC-funded English polytechnics granted university status, there were 3,614 wholly institution financed full-time academic staff at principal lecturer grade, and some 925 full-time academic staff graded above principal lecturer in the academic year 1992–93. Data for 1988–89 were not collected centrally.