§ Mr. Beithasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what would now be the gross salary of (a) a university lecturer on the scale maximum and (b) a university professor on the professional average, if the salary obtaining in October 1979 had kept pace with subsequent movements in the retail price index.
§ Sir Keith JosephBetween October 1979 and April 1984 the gross actual salaries in each case have kept up with movements in the retail prices index and would therefore be no different.
1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 Universities (Great Britain) First Degrees 130 127 130 110 88 109 Higher Degrees 33 14 23 25 22 26 Total 163 141 153 135 110 135 Polytechnics 5 6 8 10 8 5 The Government's general policy for higher education was presented in the Green Paper, "The Development of Higher Education into the 1990s" (Cmnd. 9524). The Paper does not deal specifically with provision for Russian or Russian studies but the Government acknowledge their potential value and believe that to maintain capacity for a full range of modern language teaching, including subjects which are a minority preference, will require continuing gains in efficiency, entailing further concentration of provision.