HC Deb 05 June 1998 vol 313 cc398-9W
Dr. Iddon

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if his Department will publish statistical data for each of the last five academic years on(a) academic and (b) non-academic staff in higher education institutions to include a breakdown of employment by (i) age band, (ii) gender, (iii) ethnicity, (iv) mode of employment to include (A) part-time and (B) casual and hourly-paid employees and (v) grading; and if he will arrange for these statistics to be published annually within six months of the end of each academic year. [42388]

Dr. Howells

Up to and including the 1993–94 academic year, data on staff in higher education institutions were published by the Universities Statistical Record (USR), covering the former UFC-funded universities, in "University Statistics: Volume 1", and the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council (PCFC), covering the former PCFC funded establishments, in "The Academic Staff of Polytechnics and Colleges". Copies of these publications are available in the Library.

Since 1994–95, information covering all higher education establishments has been published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) in "Resources of Higher Education Institutions". Editions are currently available for the years 1994–95 and 1995–96 and copies of these are also in the Library. The data requested for academic staff are contained in tables 17 and 21, but these tables do not separately identify casual and hourly paid employees. The following tables show casual and hourly paid employees by gender, ethnicity, age and grade corresponding to the figures in the published tables. In summary, between 1994–95 and 1995–96 total academic staff numbers increased by over 10 per cent. In the same period, hourly paid/casual staff went up by around 23 per cent. but in both years accounted for less than 2 per cent. of the total staff in numbers. It should also be noted that ethnicity breakdowns are available only for staff of known UK nationality.

Information for the 1996–97 academic year will be published by HESA next month. We will pursue with HESA whether casual and hourly paid staff can be separately identified in future years.

Data on non-academic staff are not collected centrally. This will be reviewed for the academic year 1999–2000.

The HESA volume giving staff data is currently published in June following the end of the academic year. This period is necessary to allow institutions to return the

Hourly paid/casual academic staff of known UK nationality in all UK HE institutions by ethnicity and gender
1994–95 1995–96
Female Male Total Female Male Total
White 274 384 658 452 668 1,120
Black Caribbean 0 1 1 0 2 2
Black African 0 0 0 1 0 1
Black other 0 0 0 0 1 1
Indian 0 3 3 1 5 6
Pakistani 0 0 0 0 0 0
Bangladeshi 0 0 0 0 0 0
Chinese 0 0 0 2 0 2
Asian other 2 1 3 4 3 7
Other 4 0 4 19 10 29
Total known ethnicity 280 389 669 479 689 1,168
Information refused 71 85 156 50 50 100
Total 351 474 825 529 739 1,268

Hourly paid/casual academic staff in all UK HE institutions by age and grade
Professors Senior lecturers and researchers Lecturers Researchers Other grades Total
1994–95
Under 26 0 0 1 0 84 85
26–30 0 0 8 1 173 182
31–35 0 0 5 3 206 214
36–40 0 1 10 1 216 228
41–45 0 0 18 1 218 237
46–50 0 0 11 0 193 204
51–55 0 0 11 0 148 159
56–60 0 1 12 0 138 151
61–65 1 0 9 0 95 105
66+ 0 0 6 0 26 32
Unknown 0 0 0 0 232 232
Total 1 2 91 6 1,729 1,829
1995–96
Under 26 0 0 0 1 77 78
26–30 0 0 7 4 196 207
31–35 0 0 22 4 247 273
36–40 0 0 22 2 244 268
41–45 0 0 34 0 240 274
46–50 2 0 17 0 240 259
51–55 1 0 23 0 185 209
56–60 3 2 17 0 184 206
61–65 0 0 9 0 99 108
66+ 1 0 11 0 42 54
Unknown 0 0 0 0 317 317
Total 7 2 162 11 2,071 2,253