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Chart 3. Age distribution of university academic staff.

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Age on 1 January 1975

three years ago. The majority of staff then in post were under 40, and only about 10% were over 55. Similarly detailed figures are not available for higher education teaching staff in the maintained sector, but their age distribution is also likely to be skewed towards younger staff.

8. There are now 43 universities (excluding the Open University), compared with 23 in the early 1960s. In the maintained sector, full-time and sandwich higher education provision in England and Wales is largely confined to 30 polytechnics (all designated in the late 1960s and early 1970s) and to the former colleges of education; but there are also more than 200 very diverse further education institutions combining much more limited provision of full-time advanced courses with a variety of other work (whether part-time advanced courses, non-advanced courses or some combination of the two). In Scotland the bulk of higher education courses outside the universities is provided in some 20 central institutions and colleges of education; in addition, full-time advanced courses are provided in 20 further education colleges, although again for the most part on a more limited scale.

9. The 1976/77 total of 516,000 full-time and sandwich students was divided in the ratio 272/244 between the university and the maintained sectors of higher education. The allocation of the 1981/82 planning total of 560,000 full-time and sandwich students between the two sectors is 310/250, reflecting a judgment about the likely capacities of the two sectors and of the ability of the maintained sector to expand non-teacher training courses to fill places left vacant by the overall reduction in teacher training numbers. Of the 1976/77 total of about 230,000 part-time students, over 200,000 were in the maintained sector; most of the 26,000 in universities (excluding the Open University) were postgraduates.

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