§ Mr. Andrew F. Bennettasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many academic staff in universities, polytechnics and higher education colleges have been made redundant or have taken early retirement since 1979; and how many in each category had tenured posts.
§ Mr. BrookeOnly partial information is available because of the difficulty of isolating information about different types of establishment. No information is available about the numbers leaving who had tenured posts. The available information is as follows:
Polytechnics and other colleges: academic staff (1) (2) (3) (4) Financial year Polytechnics All other further education colleges Voluntary and direct grant colleges E R E R E R 1980–81 132 — 338 — — 150 1981–82 477 — 689 — — 200 1982–83 438 — 866 — 50 115 1983–84 416 — 840 — 46 128 1984–85* Not yet available Not yet available 38 136 *To 30 September 1984. Notes
1. E=Early retirement. R=Redundancy.
2. Column 3 gives information for all further education colleges whether or not engaged in advanced further education.
3. Information about some local education authority maintained colleges is not included as it cannot readily be isolated in the records of the teachers' superannuation scheme.