§ Mr. Hancockasked 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. WaldenThe 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