Higher Education (Student to Staff Ratio)

HC Deb 19 March 1996 vol 274 c122W

Mr. Pickthall

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the average student to staff ratio in higher education for each year from 1985–86 to 1995–96. [21314]

Mr. Forth

Information on the student-staff ratio in higher education institutions in England for the academic years 1990–91 to 1993–94, the latest available, are as follows:

• 1990–91: 13.4
• 1991–92: 14.6
• 1992–93: 15.6
• 1993–94: 16.5.

Information on the same basis for earlier years is not available.