Staff and Finance of Welsh Higher Education Institutions, 2006/07

This Headline Statistics provides summary information on the staff and finance of Welsh Higher Education institutions (HEIs) in the academic year 2006/07. The data included here are collected by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) directly from institutions. HESA publish data for all UK HEIs in their annual publication "Resources of Higher Education Institutions".

Data prior to 2003/04 were based on a different data collection system and therefore are not directly comparable with data from 2003/04 onwards.

Note that the figures for Welsh HEIs include staff and finance data for the University of Wales Registry. Staff figures relate to staff with contracts active at December 1st 2006. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 5.

2006/07 Summary

Staff at Higher Education Institutions

• In 2006/07 there were 18,070 staff at Welsh publicly funded HEIs, 365 more than in 2005/06.
• Cardiff University employed most staff (5,760), more than double the next largest - the University of Glamorgan (2,435), Aberystwyth University (1,860), Bangor University (1,775) and Swansea University (1,540).
• Less than a half - 8,320 staff - were recorded as academic professionals. In over 80 per cent of academic posts teaching was recorded as a primary employment.
• The average age of full-time academic staff was 44. Just under a quarter were aged below 35 and 19 per cent were aged 55 or over.
• 9,750 non-academic staff were employed by Welsh HEIs, of which 1,825 were library assistants, clerks or general administrative assistants, 1,660 were secretaries, typists, receptionists or telephonists and a further 1,520 were non-academic professionals.
• Just over a half of all staff were female. However in academic posts only 4 in 10 were female compared with 6 in 10 of non-academic staff. Furthermore around two thirds of part-time staff were female.
• Around 30 per cent of both academic and non-academic staff worked part-time.

Finance of Higher Education Institutions

• Total income of Welsh HEIs was £1,001 million, £78 million more than in 2005/06.
• 43 per cent of income was from "Funding Council Grants" (£433m) whilst "Tuition Fees & education grants & contracts" (£215m) and "Other Income" (£210m) each accounted for 21 per cent of HEI income. "Other Income" includes the income not accounted for in other categories, for example income in respect of services rendered to outside bodies.
• Total expenditure by Welsh HEIs was £978 million, around £68 million more than in 2005/06.
• 59 per cent of expenditure by Welsh HEIs was on staff costs (£579m).

Contact:
Tel: 029 2082 5043
E-mail: he.stats@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Further Information: 
Further information can be found at the StatsWales website.

"Resources of Higher Education institutions, 2006/07" will be published by HESA in Spring 2008 and will contain detailed information on the staff and finance of all UK Higher Education institutions. Some tables from this volume will be available on the HESA website.

Next Update:
March 2009 (provisional - to be confirmed on the Due Out Soon page)