Teachers (Contracts)

Helen Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of teachers in (a) primary and (b) secondary schools were employed on temporary and short-term contracts at the latest date for which figures are available. [65172]

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Mr. Miliband [holding answer 1 July 2002]: In maintained nursery and primary schools in England, teachers on contracts of less than one month, working for the whole day on the third Thursday in January 2002, constituted 5 per cent. of all full-time equivalent teachers. These data are provisional.

In maintained secondary schools in England, teachers on contracts of less than one month, working for the whole day on the third Thursday in January 2002, constituted 3 per cent. of all full-time equivalent teachers. These data are provisional.

Bob Russell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how long it is taking the Criminal Records Bureau to process clearance applications by new teachers; if she estimates that all new teachers due to start in September will have clearance in time; if she has contingency plans should applications not be cleared in time; and if she will make a statement. [65776]

Mr. Miliband [holding answer 1 July 2002]: The Criminal Records Bureau estimate that it is currently taking, on average, approximately six weeks to produce Disclosures.

The CRB is striving hard to improve the situation. A recovery programme has been introduced, and the Bureau's current expectation is that, by August, the present backlog of applications will have been cleared, and the Bureau will be achieving its previously published service standards of providing 90 per cent. of Enhanced Disclosures within three weeks, and 95 per cent. of Standard Disclosures within one week.

My Department has already put in place contingency arrangements with the CRB. Under those arrangements, CRB staff are trawling the backlog of applications, and checking new applications, to identify those in respect of teachers and other key staff for schools. For those applications the CRB is performing checks of my Departments List 99. If that check is satisfactory the employer or agency will be able to appoint the person provisionally. The full criminal record and police check will be performed and the relevant Disclosure issued by the CRB as soon as possible after that. Those interim arrangements will stay in place until the CRB is fully up to date and meeting its performance standards.

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School Absenteeism

Diana Organ: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the rate of absenteeism among pupils at (a) primary level and (b) secondary level during the days of SATS tests has been in this academic year; and what differences there were between these rates and dates before and after the SATS tests. [63622]

Mr. Stephen Twigg [holding answer 24 June 2002]: Statistics for this academic year's Key Stage tests are not yet available. The following table shows the percentage of pupils recorded as absent in the (a) Key Stage 2 tests and (b) Key Stage 3 test in all schools in England in 2001:

Percentage

Subject	(a) Key Stage 2	(b) Key Stage 3
English	1	4
Mathematics	1	4
Science	2	5

Data on rates of absence rates before and after the Key Stage tests are not available.

Information from the pupil absence survey for 2000–01 showed that 6.5 per cent. of half days were missed due to authorised absences and 0.7 per cent. due to unauthorised absences in all schools in England.

Higher Education

Lynne Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her answer, Ref 38091, of 5 March 2002, if she will amalgamate information for performance indicators in higher education in the UK to allow comparison to be made of the socio-economic background of students entering all high ranking universities with those entering all other universities. [41953]

Margaret Hodge: The entry requirements of higher education institutions will vary from course to course and from year to year. Nevertheless, I have set out data which shows the Performance Indicators for the entry of young people by social class to undergraduate courses. The Government introduced aspirational funding for high ranking universities to support their efforts to recruit more young people from state schools. Institutions which currently receive this funding are listed first, followed by other institutions.

Table T1b: Participation of under-represented groups in higher education, Young full-time undergraduate entrants 1999–2000⁽²⁾

				From Social Class IIIM, IV, V
Institution	Total entrants	Number of young entrants	Percentage entrants who are young	Percentage with known data	Number with known data	Number from group	Percentage from group	Percentage benchmark(3)	Number benchmark(3)	Percentage Std dev
UK
All UK institutions	328,646	244,018	74	83	—	—	26	—	—	—
England
All English institutions	268,853	197,984	74	84	—	—	26	—	—	—
Aspiration funding institutions	—	—	—	—	45,025	7,070	16	19	8,484	—
University of Birmingham	3,941	3,569	91	95	3,391	644	19	20	678	0.7
University of Bristol	2,936	2,695	92	84	2,264	249	11	16	362	0.8
University of Cambridge	2,895	2,744	95	98	2,689	242	9	12	323	0.7
City University	1,410	944	67	80	755	211	28	25	189	1.6
University of Durham	2,739	2,496	91	95	2,371	308	13	18	427	0.8
University of Exeter	2,119	1,904	90	95	1,809	271	15	21	380	0.9
Imperial College	1,473	1,386	94	95	1,317	224	17	17	224	1.1
King's College London	2,829	2,164	76	87	1,883	358	19	19	358	0.9
University of Leeds	5,128	4,696	92	91	4,273	684	16	20	855	0.6
University of Liverpool	3,356	3,004	90	93	2,794	615	22	22	615	0.8
London School of Economics and Political Science	562	532	95	95	505	66	13	15	76	1.7
University of Manchester	4,762	3,937	83	89	3,504	631	18	20	701	0.7
University of Newcastle	2,641	2,469	93	95	2,346	375	16	20	469	0.8
University of Nottingham	4,035	3,380	84	90	3,042	456	15	17	517	0.7
School of oriental and African Studies	425	247	58	87	215	39	18	21	45	2.8
University of Oxford	3,055	2,933	96	97	2,845	256	9	13	370	0.7
Oxford Brookes University	2,579	1,846	72	95	1,754	333	19	29	509	1.0
University of Reading	2,189	1,922	88	92	1,768	301	17	22	389	1.0
Royal Holloway, University of London	1,190	1,081	91	97	1,049	189	18	22	231	1.3
Royal Veterinary College	124	117	94	97	113	11	10	12	14	3.5
St. George's Hospital Medical School	259	209	81	95	199	28	14	16	32	2.7
University College London	2,453	2,120	86	93	1,972	276	14	18	355	0.9
University of Warwick	2,395	2,259	94	96	2,169	304	14	17	369	0.8
Non-Aspiration funding Institutions	—	—	—	—	120,731	35,849	30	29	34,788	—
Anglia Polytechnic University	3,579	1,965	55	68	1,336	441	33	32	428	1.2
Aston University	1,168	1,067	91	93	992	327	33	24	238	1.4
University of Bath	1,654	1,513	91	93	1,407	267	19	21	295	1.1
Bath Spa University College	1,010	616	61	89	548	164	30	29	159	1.9
Bishop Grosseteste College	234	197	84	94	185	56	30	30	56	3.2
Bolton Institute of Higher Education	1,323	649	49	62	402	165	41	33	133	2.3
Bournemouth University	2,758	2,041	74	82	1,674	351	21	29	485	1.0
University of Bradford	1,706	1,318	77	83	1,094	361	33	27	295	1.3
Bretton Hall	553	421	76	92	387	128	33	27	105	2.2
University of Brighton	3,658	2,118	58	86	1,821	437	24	30	546	1.0
Brunel University	2,763	2,104	76	90	1,894	568	30	27	511	1.0
Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College	2,239	1,458	65	64	933	299	32	33	308	1.5
Canterbury Christ Church University College	1,678	1,015	60	82	832	225	27	31	258	1.5
University of Central England in Birmingham	3,872	2,455	63	63	1,547	603	39	31	479	1.2
University of Central Lancashire	5,128	3,228	63	64	2,066	702	34	31	640	1.0
Central School of Speech and Drama	131	96	73	89	85	15	18	25	21	4.4
Chester College of Higher Education	1,480	1,025	69	78	800	248	31	29	232	1.6
University College Chichester	1,147	646	56	89	575	172	30	31	178	1.8
Coventry University	3,307	2,470	75	85	2,100	777	37	32	672	1.0
Cranfield University	228	189	83	59	112	23	21	30	33	3.8
Cumbria College of Art and Design	230	167	73	84	140	55	39	33	46	3.8
Dartington College of Arts	156	99	63	88	87	20	23	29	25	4.5
De Montfort University	5,351	4,036	75	80	3,229	1,162	36	31	1,001	0.8
University of Derby	3,223	2,202	68	77	1,696	576	34	32	543	1.1
University of East Anglia	1,972	1,490	76	90	1,341	268	20	23	308	1.1
University of East London	2,891	1,369	47	67	917	367	40	34	312	1.5
Edge Hill College of Higher Education	1,638	1,015	62	78	792	277	35	31	245	1.6
University of Essex	1,104	920	83	93	856	205	24	26	222	1.5
Falmouth College of Arts	365	266	73	90	239	55	23	28	67	2.7
University of Gloucestershire	2,140	1,587	74	88	1,397	377	27	31	433	1.2
Goldsmiths College	1,118	701	63	90	631	126	20	24	151	1.6
University of Greenwich	3,353	2,049	61	71	1,455	495	34	33	480	1.2
Harper Adams University College	388	321	83	83	266	43	16	24	64	2.3
University of Hertfordshire	3,934	2,711	69	78	2,115	740	35	32	677	1.0
Homerton College, Cambridge	400	251	63	65	163	29	18	21	34	3.1
University of Huddersfield	3,556	2,460	69	82	2,017	746	37	32	646	1.0
University of Hull	2,160	1,662	77	89	1,479	355	24	24	355	1.1
Keele University	1,438	1,190	83	88	1,047	230	22	24	251	1.3
University of Kent at Canterbury	1,766	1,501	85	89	1,336	307	23	24	321	1.2
Kent Institute of Art and Design	450	326	72	85	277	89	32	30	83	2.7
King Alfred's College, Winchester	1,011	806	80	93	750	202	27	30	225	1.6
Kingston University	3,498	2,417	69	79	1,909	611	32	31	592	1.0
Lancaster University	2,020	1,868	92	94	1,756	386	22	22	386	1.0
Leeds Metropolitan University	5,050	3,667	73	77	2,824	819	29	32	904	0.8
University of Leicester	2,071	1,932	93	94	1,816	381	21	21	381	1.0
University of Lincoln	2,555	1,767	69	87	1,537	553	36	32	492	1.1
Liverpool Hope	1,440	1,060	74	70	742	267	36	31	230	1.6
Liverpool John Moores University	4,626	3,346	72	73	2,443	830	34	29	708	0.9
University of London (Institutes and activities)	66	56	85	93	52	13	25	16	8	5.7
London Guildhall University	2,605	1,487	57	72	1,071	407	38	33	353	1.4
The London Institute	2,029	1,307	64	81	1,059	275	26	29	307	1.3
Loughborough University	2,562	2,433	95	95	2,311	508	22	24	555	0.9
University of Luton	1,834	1,129	62	63	711	277	39	34	242	1.7
UMIST	1,233	1,135	92	91	1,033	248	24	24	248	1.3
Manchester Metropolitan University	6,398	4,739	74	77	3,649	1,168	32	30	1,095	0.7
Middlesex University	4,896	2,778	57	72	2,000	720	36	33	660	1.0
Newman College	349	259	74	90	233	105	45	32	75	3.0
University College Northampton	2,768	1,993	72	77	1,535	552	36	32	491	1.1
University of North London	3,114	1,618	52	62	1,003	421	42	35	351	1.4
North Riding College	447	298	67	91	271	89	33	30	81	2.6
Northern School of Contemporary Dance	36	31	86	0	—	—	—	—	—	—
University of Northumbria at Newcastle	5,415	3,690	68	84	3,100	930	30	30	930	0.8
Norwich School of Art and Design	245	173	71	83	144	42	29	28	40	3.6
Nottingham Trent University	5,297	3,957	75	88	3,482	940	27	28	975	0.7
School of Pharmacy	123	98	80	91	89	23	26	23	21	4.5
University of Plymouth	5,206	3,356	64	76	2,551	689	27	30	765	0.9
University of Portsmouth	3,162	2,446	77	85	2,079	541	26	29	603	0.9
Queen Mary, University of London	1,886	1,675	89	92	1,541	431	28	24	370	1.1
Ravensbourne College	277	184	66	78	144	39	27	30	43	3.6
Rose Bruford College	171	143	84	88	126	19	15	24	30	3.5
Royal Academy of Music	61	56	92	0	—	—	—	—	—	—
Royal College of Music	72	67	93	0	—	—	—	—	—	—
Royal Northern College of Music	104	100	96	0	—	—	—	—	—	—
College of St. Mark and St. John	666	439	66	90	395	134	34	32	126	2.2
St. Martin's College	1,278	869	68	84	730	241	33	31	226	1.6
St. Mary's College	605	548	91	93	510	163	32	28	143	2.0
University of Salford	3,849	2,506	65	76	1,905	648	34	30	571	1.0
University of Sheffield	4,090	3,315	81	89	2,950	502	17	18	531	0.7
Sheffield Hallam University	5,584	4,311	77	88	3,794	1,176	31	30	1,138	0.7
University of Southampton	4,111	3,326	81	89	2–960	503	17	22	651	0.7
Southampton Institute	3,941	2,763	70	70	1,934	542	28	32	619	1.0
South Bank University	3,518	1,544	44	56	865	303	35	34	294	1.5
Staffordshire University	3,889	2,891	74	82	2,371	830	35	32	759	0.9
University of Sunderland	2,616	1,878	72	96	1,803	631	35	32	577	1.1
The Surrey Institute of Art and Design University College	794	656	83	89	584	158	27	29	169	1.8
University of Surrey	1,272	996	78	84	837	176	21	25	209	1.4
University of Surrey Roehampton	1,703	1,186	70	89	1,056	317	30	30	317	1.3
University of Sussex	1,667	1,351	81	95	1,283	205	16	22	282	1.1
University of Teesside	2,794	1,770	63	87	1,540	693	45	34	524	1.2
Thames Valley University	2,272	850	37	48	408	143	35	36	147	2.2
Trinity and All Saints	655	586	89	91	533	149	28	27	144	1.9
Trinity College of Music	88	79	90	0	—	—	—	—	—	—
University of West of England, Bristol	5,765	4,273	74	79	3,376	743	22	28	945	0.7
University of Westminster	2,986	1,900	64	81	1,539	585	38	32	492	1.2
Westminster College, Oxford	69	50	72	92	46	13	28	31	14	6.2
Wimbledon School of Art	119	83	70	90	75	20	27	26	19	5.0
University of Wolverhampton	4,639	2,841	61	71	2,017	948	47	33	666	1.0
University College Worcester	1,261	706	56	87	612	190	31	33	202	1.8
Writtle College	338	213	63	81	173	41	24	24	41	3.0
Wye College, University of London	126	104	83	92	96	16	17	22	21	3.9
University of York	1,790	1,526	85	92	1,404	211	15	18	253	1.1
York St. John College	997	787	79	90	708	227	32	29	205	1.7

⁽²⁾ Source: HEFCE Performance Indicators

⁽³⁾ The grouped benchmark values for the two sets of institutions are estimates

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