§ Mr. Rookerasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if his Department has any estimate of the recent movement in the ratio of teachers to administrators in the education service; and if he will make a statement.
§ Miss Margaret JacksonAccording to the 1971 Census of Population there were 637,970 lecturers and teachers and 731,64054W non-teaching staff employed in educational services in Great Britain. Of the non-teaching staff, 13,820 were in Occupation Order XXIV (Administrators and Managers); the ratio of teachers to administrators being 46:1. More recent information is not available on the employment of administrators. However, information provided by the Department of Employment shows that the recent movement of the ratio of the number of lecturers and teachers to the number of all other staff employed by the education departments of local authorities in England and Wales was as follows:
December 1974 1.00:1 March 1975 1.03:1 June 1975 0.99:1 September 1975 0.97:1 December 1975 (provisional) 0.97:1 "Other staff" includes such employees as schools meals staff, cleaners, caretakers, laboratory technicians as well as clerical and administrative staff who form only a small proportion of the total.