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Student Statistics

Mr. McNamara: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many students there are in the (a) further education and (b) higher education sector. [12263]

John Healey: There were 4.2 million students in the FE sector in 1999–2000. This figure includes funded and non-funded students in FE colleges and funded students

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in external institutions, specialist designated institutions and higher education institutions. Data for 2000–01 are not yet available.

Numbers for students in higher education are as follows:

HE students in England—2000–01⁽³³⁾

			Thousand
	Postgraduates	Undergraduates	Total
Full-time	136.1	874.5	1,010.6
Part-time	179.4	461.6	641.0
Total	315.5	1,336.1	1,651.6

⁽³³⁾ Provisional

Note:

The figures cover HE students in HE and FE institutions, including the Open University.

Mr. McNamara: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many higher education students are in their (a) first, (b) second, (c) third and (d) fourth of study. [12264]

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Margaret Hodge: The information is given in the following table.

Higher Education Students in the UK⁽³⁴⁾—2000–01

Year of study	Full-time	Part-time	Total
1	503.9	285.5	789.4
2	324.6	141.8	466.3
3	253.2	67.2	320.3
4	91.5	40.2	131.7
Other	22.9	71.8	94.7
Total	1,196.0	606.5	1,802.5

⁽³⁴⁾ Covers all home and overseas postgraduates and undergraduates in HE institutions in the UK.

Higher Education

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many teaching staff have been employed (a) full-time and (b) part-time in higher education in each of the last five years. [12306]

Margaret Hodge: The available data on the number of teaching staff employed in higher education are given in the table.

Academic Staff in UK Higher Education Institutions

	Full-time	Part-time	Total
1995–96	111,460	15,120	126,580
1996–97	110,770	16,790	127,570
1997–98	110,480	17,590	128,080
1998–99	112,370	18,760	131,140
1999–2000	113,790	21,960	135,750

Note:

Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10

Source:

Higher Education Statistics Agency's Staff Record

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many unfilled vacancies there were in the higher education sector for all grades of lecturer posts in (a) 1995 and (b) 2000. [12308]

Margaret Hodge: This information is not held centrally. Individual universities, as employers, are responsible for monitoring their own vacancies.

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what monitoring is carried out by her Department of the payment by higher education institutions of nationally recommended pay awards. [12309]

Margaret Hodge: The higher education employers and trades unions will monitor the implementation of the pay awards they have agreed. The Government do not play a part.

Universities

Mr. Willis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many (a) male and (b) female university teachers are aged (i) 20 to 25, (ii) 25 to 30, (iii) 31 to 35, (iv) 36 to 40, (v) 41 to 44, (vi) 45 to 49, (vii) 50 to 54, (viii) 55 to 59, (ix) 60 to 65, (x) 66 to 70 and (xi) 71 years and over. [12307]

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Margaret Hodge: The available data on age and gender of university staff are given in the table.

Academic staff in UK higher education institutions 1999–2000

Age	Female	Male	Total
20–24	1,620	1,520	3,140
25–30	9,100	12,110	21,210
31–35	8,720	13,710	22,430
36–40	7,590	12,120	19,710
41–44	5,760	8,780	14,540
45–49	6,660	11,170	17,830
50–54	5,480	13,000	18,480
55–59	2,590	8,690	11,550
60–65	870	5,190	6,060
66–70	50	390	440
71+	140	220	360
Total	48,580	87,170	135,750

Note:

Numbers have been rounded to the nearest 10.

Source:

Higher Education Statistics Agency's Staff Record.

Mr. Simmonds: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on the (a) recruitment and retention of university staff and (b) total funding figures for universities in England and Wales per university for the last five years. [12321]

Margaret Hodge: The recruitment and retention of staff is a matter for higher education institutions. However, in England the Government are providing £50 million in 2001–02, rising to £110 million in 2002–03 and £170 million in 2003–04. This is to support the initiatives set out in the human resources strategies which each higher education institution has submitted to the Higher Education Funding Council for England, including measures to promote recruitment and retention and modernisation of reward systems. In Wales, these issues are now a matter for the National Assembly.

Data on funding for higher education institutes can be found in the Higher Education Statistics Agency publication "Resources for higher education institutions" copies of which are in the Library of the House.

Teacher Shortages

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if the forthcoming allocation of funds to local education authorities for 2002–03 will be adjusted to reflect cost of living issues and teacher shortages in the south-east. [12743]

Mr. Timms: Education standard spending assessments for 2002–03 will continue to reflect the additional costs faced by local education authorities on the same basis as in 2001–02.

Specialist Schools

Charlotte Atkins: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many specialist schools there were in each local education authority in (a) 1996, (b) 1998 and (c) 2000; and how many there were in each specialty in 2000. [12966]

Mr. Timms: The number of operational Specialist Schools, as of 1996, 1998 and 2000, by LEA by specialism, is given in the following tables.

Specialist Schools Number of operational Specialist Schools by LEA by specialism (information given is as of September each year)

Local education authorities	Total secondary schools in LEA	1996 ArtsLanguageSportsTechnologyTotal
Barking & Dagenham, LB of	8	—	—	—	1	1
Barnet, LB of	21	—	1	—	1	2
Barnsley	14	—	—	—	—	0
Bath & North East Somerset	13	—	—	—	—	0
Bedfordshire	17	—	—	—	—	0
Bexley, LB of	16	—	—	—	1	1
Birmingham	77	—	—	—	3	3
Blackburn with Darwen	9	—	—	—	—	0
Blackpool	8	—	—	—	—	0
Bolton	16	—	—	—	1	1
Bournemouth	10	—	—	—	—	0
Bracknell Forest	6	—	—	—	—	0
Bradford	27	—	—	—	1	1
Brent, LB of	13	—	1	—	2	3
Brighton and Hove	10	—	—	—	—	0
Bristol, city of	20	—	—	—	—	0
Bromley, LB of	17	—	1	—	3	4
Buckinghamshire	34	—	1	—	1	2
Bury	14	—	—	—	—	0
Calderdale	15	—	—	—	1	1
Cambridgeshire	30	—	—	—	2	2
Camden, LB of	10	—	—	—	—	0
Cheshire	45	—	1	—	1	2
Corporation of London	0	—	—	—	—	0
Cornwall	31	—	—	—	2	2
Coventry	19	—	—	—	1	1
Croydon, LB of	21	—	—	—	—	0
Cumbria	42	—	—	—	2	2
Darlington	7	—	—	—	1	1
Derby, city of	13	—	—	—	2	2
Derbyshire	47	—	—	—	1	1
Devon	37	—	1	—	1	2
Doncaster	17	—	—	—	—	0
Dorset	20	—	—	—	2	2
Dudley	22	—	—	—	1	1
Durham	36	—	—	—	1	1
Ealing, LB of	13	—	—	—	1	1
East Riding of Yorkshire	18	—	—	—	—	0
East Sussex	27	—	—	—	—	0
Enfield, LB of	17	—	—	—	1	1
Essex	79	—	1	—	8	9
Gateshead	10	—	—	—	1	1
Gloucestershire	42	—	1	—	2	3
Greenwich, LB of	13	—	—	—	1	1
Hackney, LB of	9	—	—	—	—	0
Halton	7	—	—	—	—	0
Hammersmith & Fulham, LB of	8	—	—	—	—	0
Hampshire	71	—	1	—	1	2
Haringey, LB of	10	—	—	—	—	0
Harrow, LB of	10	—	—	—	—	0
Hartlepool	6	—	—	—	—	0
Havering, LB of	18	—	—	—	—	0
Herefordshire	14	—	—	—	—	0
Hertfordshire	77	—	3	-	1	4
Hillingdon, LB of	17	—	—	—	—	0
Hounslow, LB of	14	—	—	—	—	0
Isle of Scilly	1	—	—	—	—	0
Isle of Wight	5	—	—	—	1	1
Islington, LB of	9	—	—	—	—	0
Kensington & Chelsea, RB of	4	—	—	—	—	0
Kent	102	—	1	—	5	6
Kingston upon Hull, city of	15	—	—	—	—	0
Kingston-upon-Thames, RB of	10	—	—	—	—	0
Kirklees	25	—	1	—	2	3
Knowsley	11	—	—	—	—	0
Lambeth, LB of	10	—	—	—	1	1
Lancashire	87	—	2	—	9	11
Leeds	43	—	—	—	1	1
Leicester City	16	—	—	—	—	0
Leicestershire	45	—	—	—	1	1
Lewisham, LB of	12	—	—	—	—	0
Lincolnshire	63	—	—	—	4	4
Liverpool	33	—	—	—	2	2
Luton	12	—	1	—	1	2
Manchester	23	—	1	—	1	2
Medway	19	—	—	—	2	2
Merton, LB of	9	—	—	—	—	0
Middlesbrough	11	—	—	—	—	0
Milton Keynes	11	—	—	—	—	0
Newcastle upon Tyne	12	—	1	—	2	3
Newham, LB of	15	—	—	—	2	2
Norfolk	52	—	—	—	3	3
North East Lincolnshire	12	—	—	—	—	0
North Lincolnshire	14	—	—	—	—	0
North Somerset	10	—	—	—	—	0
North Tyneside	11	—	1	—	1	2
North Yorkshire	45	—	—	—	1	1
Northamptonshire	38	—	—	—	3	3
Northumberland	15	—	1	—	2	3
Nottingham, City of	19	—	—	—	2	2
Nottinghamshire	50	—	—	—	1	1
Oldham	15	—	—	—	—	0
Oxfordshire	35	—	—	—	2	2
Peterborough, city of	13	—	—	—	1	1
Plymouth, city of	18	—	—	—	1	1
Poole	8	—	—	—	—	0
Portsmouth	10	—	—	—	—	0
Reading	8	—	—	—	2	2
Redbridge	17	—	—	—	2	2
Redcar & Cleveland	11	—	—	—	1	1
Richmond-u-Thames, LB of	8	—	—	—	—	0
Rochdale	14	—	—	—	1	1
Rotherham	17	—	—	—	1	1
Rutland	3	—	—	—	1	1
Salford	14	—	—	—	—	0
Sandwell	19	—	—	—	1	1
Sefton	22	—	—	—	1	1
Sheffield	27	—	—	—	3	3
Shropshire	22	—	—	—	1	1
Slough	11	—	—	—	1	1
Solihull	13	—	1	—	1	2
Somerset	30	—	—	—	1	1
South Gloucestershire	14	—	1	—	—	1
South Tyneside	11	—	—	—	2	2
Southend-on-Sea	12	—	—	—	—	0
Southampton	14	—	—	—	—	0
Southwark, LB of	13	—	—	—	—	0
St. Helens	12	—	—	—	—	0
Staffordshire	55	—	—	—	—	0
Stockport	14	—	—	—	1	1
Stockton on Tees	13	—	—	—	—	0
Stoke on Trent	17	—	—	—	1	1
Suffolk	38	—	—	—	2	2
Sunderland	17	—	—	—	—	0
Surrey	53	—	1	—	6	7
Sutton, LB of	14	—	—	—	—	0
Swindon	10	—	—	—	—	0
Tameside	18	—	—	—	1	1
Telford and Wrekin	13	—	—	—	2	2
Thurrock	11	—	—	—	—	0
Torbay	8	—	1	—	—	1
Tower Hamlets, LB of	15	—	—	—	1	1
Trafford	18	—	—	—	2	2
Wakefield	18	—	—	—	1	1
Walsall	20	—	1	—	—	1
Waltham Forest, LB of	17	—	—	—	—	0
Wandsworth, LB of	9	—	—	—	1	1
Warrington	12	—	1	—	2	3
Warwickshire	37	—	—	—	1	1
West Berkshire	10	—	1	—	1	2
West Sussex	36	—	1	—	—	1
Westminster, LB of	8	—	—	—	—	0
Wigan	21	—	1	—	2	3
Wiltshire	29	—	—	—	1	1
Windsor & Maidenhead, RB of	9	—	—	—	—	0
Wirral	23	—	—	—	1	1
Wokingham	9	—	—	—	—	0
Wolverhampton	18	—	—	—	2	2
Worcestershire	29	—	1	—	—	1
York, city of	11	—	—	—	—	0
Total(35)	3,152	—	31	—	146	177
Special Schools		0	0	0	0	0
Total		0	31	0	146	177

⁽³⁵⁾ Excluding special schools

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Specialist Schools Number of operational Specialist Schools by LEA by specialism (information given is as of September each year)

Local education authorities	1998 ArtsLanguageSportsTechnologyTotal					2000 ArtsLanguageSportsTechnologyTotal
Barking & Dagenham, LB of	—	—	1	1	2	—	—	1	1	2
Barnet, LB of	—	1	—	1	2	—	1	1	1	3
Barnsley	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	1	—	1
Bath & North East Somerset	—	—	1	1	2	1	—	1	3	5
Bedfordshire	—	—	—	—	0	1	—	—	—	1
Bexley, LB of	—	—	—	1	1	—	—	—	1	1
Birmingham	—	—	—	5	5	2	1	4	13	20
Blackburn with Darwen	—	—	—	1	1	—	—	—	2	2
Blackpool	—	1	—	—	1	1	1	—	—	2
Bolton	—	—	—	—	0	—	1	1	1	3
Bournemouth	—	—	—	—	0	1	1	—	—	2
Bracknell Forest	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	—	—	0
Bradford	—	—	1	1	2	—	1	2	2	5
Brent, LB of	—	1	—	2	3	—	1	—	2	3
Brighton and Hove	—	—	—	1	1	1	—	—	1	2
Bristol, city of	—	—	—	1	1	1	—	—	1	2
Bromley, LB of	—	1	—	3	4	—	1	—	3	4
Buckinghamshire	—	1	1	2	4	1	1	1	2	5
Bury	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	—	—	0
Calderdale	—	—	—	1	1	—	—	—	—	0
Cambridgeshire	1	—	—	2	3	1	1	—	5	7
Camden, LB of	—	1	—	1	2	1	1	—	2	4
Cheshire	—	1	—	2	3	—	1	—	4	5
Corporation of London	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	—	—	0
Cornwall	—	1	2	6	9	—	1	3	5	9
Coventry	—	1	—	3	4	1	1	—	3	5
Croydon, LB of	—	—	—	1	1	—	—	—	1	1
Cumbria	—	2	—	3	5	—	2	—	4	6
Darlington	—	—	—	1	1	—	1	—	1	2
Derby, city of	—	—	—	1	1	1	—	—	1	2
Derbyshire	—	1	—	3	4	—	1	—	3	4
Devon	—	1	2	2	5	—	1	2	3	6
Doncaster	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	—	—	0
Dorset	—	—	—	2	2	—	2	1	2	5
Dudley	—	—	—	1	1	—	—	—	1	1
Durham	1	2	—	3	6	1	2	1	8	12
Ealing, LB of	—	—	—	1	1	—	—	2	1	3
East Riding of Yorkshire	—	—	—	2	2	—	1	—	3	4
East Sussex	—	—	2	—	2	—	—	3	1	4
Enfield, LB of	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	—	—	0
Essex	—	1	1	8	10	1	3	3	9	16
Gateshead	1	—	—	1	2	1	1	1	1	4
Gloucestershire	—	1	—	5	6	—	2	1	8	11
Greenwich, LB of	2	—	—	2	4	3	—	—	2	5
Hackney, LB of	—	—	—	2	2	—	1	—	3	4
Halton	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	—	1	1
Hammersmith & Fulham, LB of	—	—	—	—	0	1	—	—	—	1
Hampshire	—	1	—	1	2	1	3	—	2	6
Haringey, LB of	—	—	—	1	1	—	—	—	1	1
Harrow, LB of	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	—	—	0
Hartlepool	—	—	—	1	1	1	—	—	1	2
Havering, LB of	—	—	—	1	1	—	—	—	1	1
Herefordshire	—	—	—	1	1	1	—	—	1	2
Hertfordshire	—	4	—	1	5	—	5	—	3	8
Hillingdon, LB of	1	1	—	—	2	1	1	—	1	3
Hounslow, LB of	—	1	—	1	2	—	1	—	1	2
Isle of Scilly	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	—	—	0
Isle of Wight	—	—	—	1	1	—	1	—	1	2
Islington, LB of	—	—	—	—	0	—	1	—	1	2
Kensington & Chelsea, RB of	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	—	—	0
Kent	—	1	—	6	7	—	3	1	6	10
Kingston upon Hull, city of	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	—	1	1
Kingston-upon-Thames, RB of	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	—	—	0
Kirklees	—	1	1	3	5	—	1	1	4	6
Knowsley	—	—	1	—	1	—	1	1	—	2
Lambeth, LB of	1	—	—	1	2	1	—	—	2	3
Lancashire	—	2	—	11	13	—	2	—	13	15
Leeds	1	—	—	1	2	1	1	2	1	5
Leicester City	—	—	—	—	0	—	1	1	1	3
Leicestershire	—	—	1	5	6	2	—	1	5	8
Lewisham, LB of	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	—	—	0
Lincolnshire	—	—	—	4	4	2	—	—	6	8
Liverpool	—	—	—	5	5	—	1	1	4	6
Luton	—	1	—	1	2	1	—	—	1	2
Manchester	—	1	1	2	4	1	1	2	3	7
Medway	—	—	—	2	2	—	1	—	2	3
Merton, LB of	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	—	—	0
Middlesbrough	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	—	—	0
Milton Keynes	1	1	1	1	4	1	1	1	1	4
Newcastle upon Tyne	—	1	1	2	4	—	1	1	5	7
Newham, LB of	—	—	1	2	3	—	—	1	2	3
Norfolk	—	—	—	4	4	1	1	2	6	10
North East Lincolnshire	—	—	—	—	0	1	—	—	2	3
North Lincolnshire	—	—	—	1	1	1	—	—	1	2
North Somerset	—	—	—	1	1	1	1	—	2	4
North Tyneside	—	1	—	2	3	—	1	—	2	3
North Yorkshire	—	—	—	4	4	1	—	—	5	6
Northamptonshire	1	2	—	5	8	1	4	1	6	12
Northumberland	—	1	—	3	4	—	1	1	5	7
Nottingham, city of	—	—	—	2	2	—	—	—	2	2
Nottinghamshire	—	—	1	2	3	—	—	1	2	3
Oldham	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	1	1	2
Oxfordshire	—	1	—	4	5	1	1	1	4	7
Peterborough, city of	—	—	—	1	1	—	—	—	1	1
Plymouth, city of	—	—	—	1	1	2	1	—	3	6
Poole	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	—	—	0
Portsmouth	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	—	—	0
Reading	—	—	—	1	1	—	—	—	1	1
Redbridge	—	—	—	2	2	—	1	—	2	3
Redcar & Cleveland	—	—	—	1	1	—	—	—	1	1
Richmond-u-Thames, LB of	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	—	—	0
Rochdale	—	1	1	1	3	—	1	1	1	3
Rotherham	—	—	1	1	2	—	—	1	1	2
Rutland	—	—	—	1	1	—	—	—	1	1
Salford	—	—	—	—	0	—	1	—	1	2
Sandwell	—	1	1	1	3	—	1	1	1	3
Sefton	—	1	—	1	2	—	1	1	1	3
Sheffield	—	1	—	3	4	—	1	—	3	4
Shropshire	—	—	—	1	1	—	—	—	1	1
Slough	—	—	—	1	1	—	—	—	1	1
Solihull	—	1	—	1	2	—	1	—	1	2
Somerset	1	—	—	3	4	1	1	—	5	7
South Gloucestershire	—	1	—	1	2	—	1	—	2	3
South Tyneside	—	—	—	2	2	—	—	—	2	2
Southend-on-Sea	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	—	1	1
Southampton	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	—	—	0
Southwark, LB of	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	—	—	0
St. Helens	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	—	2	2
Staffordshire	—	—	—	2	2	—	—	—	2	2
Stockport	—	1	—	1	2	—	1	—	1	2
Stockton on Tees	—	—	—	—	0	1	1	1	1	4
Stoke on Trent	—	—	—	—	0	1	—	—	—	1
Suffolk	—	—	—	5	5	—	1	—	7	8
Sunderland	—	—	1	—	1	—	—	1	2	3
Surrey	—	3	—	6	9	—	3	—	7	10
Sutton, LB of	—	—	—	1	1	—	—	—	1	1
Swindon	—	—	—	—	0	1	—	—	1	2
Tameside	—	—	—	1	1	1	—	—	1	2
Telford and Wrekin	—	—	—	2	2	—	—	—	2	2
Thurrock	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	—	—	0
Torbay	—	1	—	—	1	—	1	—	—	1
Tower Hamlets, LB of	1	—	—	1	2	1	1	—	1	3
Trafford	—	—	1	2	3	—	—	1	2	3
Wakefield	—	—	—	2	2	—	1	—	2	3
Walsall	—	1	—	—	1	—	1	—	1	2
Waltham Forest, LB of	—	—	—	1	1	—	—	—	2	2
Wandsworth, LB of	1	1	—	1	3	1	1	2	1	5
Warrington	1	1	—	1	3	1	1	—	1	3
Warwickshire	—	—	—	2	2	1	—	—	4	5
West Berkshire	1	1	1	1	4	1	1	1	2	5
West Sussex	—	2	—	5	7	—	2	1	5	8
Westminster, LB of	1	—	—	—	1	1	—	—	—	1
Wigan	1	1	1	2	5	1	1	1	4	7
Wiltshire	—	—	—	5	5	1	1	2	4	8
Windsor & Maidenhead, RB of	—	—	—	—	0	—	—	—	—	0
Wirral	—	—	—	2	2	—	1	—	2	3
Wokingham	—	—	—	—	0	—	1	—	—	1
Wolverhampton	—	1	—	2	3	1	1	—	3	5
Worcestershire	—	1	—	—	1	—	1	2	2	5
York, city of	—	—	—	2	2	—	2	—	2	4
Total(36)	17	57	26	225	325	56	99	65	308	528
Special Schools	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	5	8
Total	17	57	26	225	325	57	99	67	313	536

⁽³⁶⁾ Excluding special schools

8 Nov 2001 : Column: 421W

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