HC Deb 04 December 1985 vol 88 c226W
Mr. Hancock

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information he has as to how many university lecturers have left the profession since 1979.

Mr. Walden

The numbers of full-time academic non-clinical lecturers and assistant lecturers, wholly university financed, who have left a university each year between January 1980 and December 1983 are shown in the following table. Information for 1984 is not yet available.

Great Britain
1980 1981 1982 1983
Total of which: 732 717 1,067 813
Retirement 108 140 457 261
Other education employment 72 55 47 34
University employment overseas 90 77 73 43
Other employment overseas 51 50 63 28
Private industry or commerce 50 56 69 53
Central government 19 8 10 16
Self employed 16 13 16 23
Death 43 33 24 26
Other 283 285 308 329