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School Places

Volume 20: debated on Monday 15 March 1982

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asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information he has on the maximum, minimum and average savings that have been achieved in recent years by those education authorities that have already reduced the number of school places offered in new areas by more than 5, 10 and 20 per cent. respectively.

England
UniversitiesLocal Authority Education Staff
Total numbers, full-time and part-time
Lecturers and research staffNon-teaching staff (academically related)†Lecturers and teaching staffsNon-teaching staff
Full-timePart-timeFull-timePart-time
1960*10,544NANANA348,468161,612
197025,943NANANA523,652521,756
198033,8771,2197,520269647,966646,419
1981NANANANA626,774623,726
* Figures for 1960 are not strictly comparable with those for later years. In the case of the universities they are in respect only of 18 institutions, as compared with 36 for the other years. In the case of non-teaching staff certain categories of staff are excluded from the count.
† Excludes all technicians, clerical staff and manual staff.