§ Mr. LlwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales what has been the student-tutor ratio in each of the colleges within the current structure of the university of Wales in each year since 1979; and if he will make a statement.
Ratio of FTE of students to University funded full time academic staff1 Academic year beginning 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 Aberystwyth 8.6 8.5 8.8 9.5 9.2 13.4 13.5 11.0 11.0 Bangor 9.8 9.4 9.7 9.9 10.5 9.4 9.7 10.1 10.2 Cardiff 9.3 10.3 9.6 9.5 9.3 9.6 10.6 11.8 12.4 St. David's, Lampeter 9.8 11.0 11.5 11.5 11.0 10.6 10.5 11.0 10.7 Swansea 10.0 10.7 10.6 10.6 10.3 10.6 11.5 11.7 12.1 Welsh National School of Medicine 5.0 4.8 4.5 4.6 4.8 5.8 5.4 5.6 5.3 University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology 9.6 10.6 10.6 10.2 9.3 9.9 10.5 10.5 10.8
1988 1989 1990 Aberystwyth 12.0 12.3 12.7 Bangor 10.7 11.9 13.0 Cardiff2 13.2 12.7 13.1 St. David's Lampeter 12.5 12.5 13.6 Swansea 12.3 14.5 14.2 College of Medicine 5.7 7.3 7.1 Notes:
1 Ratio of full time equivalent student load to full time academic staff paid wholly from university general funds. The academic staff numbers exclude part time staff and those staff not wholly funded by the university.
The exclusions numbered 984 academic staff in 1990–91 or 34 per cent. of all academic staff recorded for the University as a whole.
2From 1988 the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology merged with the University of Wales College Cardiff.
Source:
"Statistics of Education, Volume 6—Universities" and "University Statistics; Finance" published by Universities' Statistical Record.