§ Chris RuaneTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many further education lecturers have left the profession in each of the last 10 years. [2996]
§ John Healey[holding answer 9 July 2001]: Full-time lecturers in the further education (FE) sector in England at March each year who were no longer employed as full-time in the FE sector one year later, in either England or Wales, in the financial years 1989–90 to 1998–99 (the last year for which records are available) are as follows:
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Year Number of FE leavers 1998–99 3,955 1997–98 7,115 1996–97 6,808 1995–96 5,953 1994–95 4,943 1993–94 5,243 1992–931 5,081 1991–921 4,525 1990–911 5,088 1989–901 4,810 1Excludes sixth-form colleges 2 Full-time FE lecturers who became part-time FE lecturers are counted as leavers.
Source
The DfES Database of Teacher Records. The most recent data available are for 31 March 1999.
§ Dr. TongeTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what information she has collated regarding vacancy rates in lecturer/senior lecturer grades over the last five years, in each university. [4572]
§ Margaret Hodge[answer 18 July 2001]: The information is not held centrally. Individual universities, as employers, are responsible for monitoring their own vacancies.