HC Deb 01 March 1996 vol 272 c762W
Mr. William Powell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many full-time equivalent teachers were employed in tertiary education in Northamptonshire in each year since 1979. [17553]

Mr. Robin Squire

The available information on full-time equivalent staff in further and higher education is shown in the table:

Academic years Further education FTES Higher education FTES
1987–881 646.8 182.1
1988–89 621.4 183.0
1989–90 693.0 187.3
1990–91 652.3 224.8
1991–922 695.4 246.9
1992–93 694.5 312.9
1993–94 695.4 381.3
1 Figures prior to 1987–88 are incomplete.
2 HE colleges transferred from LEA control to the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council.

Academic year FTE providing teaching and learning (Provisional) Higher education FTES
1994–95 3621.3 n/a
3 From 1994–95 onwards, data are being collected by different systems, and the figure does not include as high a proportion of teacher time as the former measure.