§ Mrs. Renée Shortasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many lecturers are currently employed in colleges of further education and polytechnics; and how many it is planned there should be for each year up to 1984.
§ Dr. BoysonThe latest available information is for September 1980. There were then approximately 83,000 full-time and full-time equivalent or part-time lecturers employed in polytechnics and other maintained major establishments of further education in England.
The Government's expenditure plans, as reflected in the Rate Support Grant settlement for 1981–82, assume a significant reduction in teacher numbers in colleges of further education and polytechnics. For later years the Government's plans will be set out in the forthcoming Public Expenditure White Paper. The precise distribution of the expenditure reductions in 1981–82 and in later years and the means of their achievement, are currently under discussion with the local authority associations.