HC Deb 14 February 2000 vol 344 c395W
Dr. Gibson

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what assessment he has made of the numbers of academic staff leaving British universities for posts abroad in each of the last 10 years; and if he will make a statement. [109022]

Mr. Wicks

The available data are given in the table. There has always been some academic recruitment across national boundaries and the numbers for the most recent years represent only around 5 per cent. of all staff who leave the higher education sector.

Full-time, wholly institutionally financed academic staff leaving higher education institutions to take up posts abroad
Staff leaving to take up employment abroad1
Former UFC2 funded universities in GB Calendar year:
1989 3183
1990 3192
1991 3184
1992 3200
1993 3183
All HE institutions in the UK Academic year:
1994–95 4170
1995–96 4268
1996–97 4303
1997–98 4290
1998–99 4294
1 Includes employment in HE institutions, research institutes, and other overseas employment.
2 Universities Funding Council.
3 Including staff who left for study abroad.
4 Excluding staff who did not give details of their destination.