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2815 SIR Web Brochure 2/6/08 11:25 Page 1 Further Education Workforce Data for England An Analysis of the Staff Individualised Record (SIR) Data 2006/07 2815 SIR Web Brochure 2/6/08 11:25 Page 2 Foreword I am delighted that Lifelong Learning UK (LLUK) is publishing this report at this time. In December 2007 LLUK published the first Workforce Strategy for the Further Education sector 2007-2012, development of which we facilitated on behalf of the wider FE System in England. This first strategy for the workforce in the further education sector included four priorities for action. Priority 1 was ‘Understanding the nature of the workforce’ and comprised three themes: 1. Gathering robust data on the further education workforce 2. Using data to understand the further education workforce and improve future planning 3. Using data to understand workforce diversity and target actions. During the consultation and development phases of the Workforce The Workforce Strategy implementation plan was published in Strategy, it became apparent that this work was necessary, not only March 2008 and is available on the LLUK website (www.lluk.org). to assist workforce planning, but also to deliver realistic forecasting The plan captures the actions and milestones committed by key at national level to assist in informing policy development, national stakeholders and partners during 2008-09 to contribute towards investment and other types of support for the workforce. Only the achievement of outcomes anticipated by 2011. Both the through the provision of comprehensive and accurate data can strategy and the implementation plan are intended to act as informed decisions be made about funding, and targets set for resources to support individual employers’ strategic workforce positive interventions. Workforce intelligence is essential in planning. They are not static documents and will be reviewed and providing evidence to agree priority areas and allocate resources. refreshed annually to reflect the policy drivers, regulatory issues The summary of data given in this report is evidence of the way and environmental factors which impact upon the sector. that data analysis can be used to highlight particular issues and help In the meantime, I hope that the analysis of data contained in this focus actions for the future. We are grateful that over 70% of report will be helpful to individual colleges in comparing their own colleges have responded to the Staff Individualised Record (SIR) data data against national and regional data. We welcome comments collections, enabling us to undertake this analysis for the sector. and suggestions about how to improve and develop the Collected data will be used across the wider FE system to underpin intelligence presented here. Please address any queries to discussions and decisions about workforce developments. [email protected]. David Hunter Chief Executive Officer Lifelong Learning UK 2 2815 SIR Web Brochure 2/6/08 11:25 Page 3 An Analysis of the Staff Individualised Record (SIR) Data 2006/07 Contents Introduction 4 The 2006/07 Dataset 5 How to use this report 6 Section 1: The English further education (FE) college workforce – 2006/07 7 1.1 Gender 7 1.2 Age of FE staff – 2006/07 8 1.3 Diversity - Ethnicity 9 1.4 Diversity - Disability 11 1.5 FE teaching staff by English region 11 1.6 Annual pay of FE staff 12 1.6 Summary of findings and main points 15 Section 2: Qualifications held by the FE workforce 16 2.1 Teaching qualifications held by FE teaching staff 16 2.2 Enrolment on FE teaching qualifications 17 2.3 Subject areas taught in English FE institutions 18 2.4 Qualification levels at individual FE institutions, by region 21 2.6 Summary of findings and main points 26 Appendix 1: FE Colleges returning Data for the SIR 27 Appendix 2: Detailed Work Categories with number of contracts, by gender, 2006/07 38 Appendix 3: Detailed ethnicity categories contained in the SIR 39 3 2815 SIR Web Brochure 2/6/08 11:25 Page 4 Introduction This report presents the findings from an analysis of workforce by the FE teaching workforce. This report attempts to answer data, known as the Staff Individualised Record (SIR), for further some specific questions about people teaching in FE institutions. education (FE) institutions in England for 2006/07. SIR data In effect these questions comprise: comprises workforce information that is gathered from FE • What are the characteristics of the FE workforce, teaching institutions during the academic year. This is the fourth in a series and other types of staff, in terms of gender, age, diversity and of annual reports on the FE workforce in England by Lifelong geographical region? Learning UK (LLUK) and provides a profile of the FE workforce in terms of demographic factors including; age, gender and ethnicity • What teaching qualifications do teaching staff hold, and which (the latter is a general overview and this area is covered in greater subject areas are they teaching? detail in LLUK’s Annual Workforce Diversity Profile report). This Where information on the diversity, gender, annual pay and other report also provides an overview of the levels of, qualifications of types of information is provided across all FE staff, teaching staff and the subject areas taught by FE teaching staff. are often compared with FE staff in general. In previous years, with the exception of 2005/06, the report has In this year’s report, LLUK has the benefit of five years of SIR essentially comprised a statistical analysis of the whole SIR data data analyses available for comparison. This allows data to be set, highlighting any findings thought to be of possible interest. compared across the years and enables this report to highlight This year, while still retaining the information on the FE workforce how, if at all, the profile of the workforce has changed over time. as a whole, there is a specific focus on the qualification levels held LLUK has previously included analysis against the government’s Success for All targets in this report. We are undertaking a more detailed analysis of this and will produce a separate and full report when the analysis has been completed. 4 2815 SIR Web Brochure 2/6/08 11:25 Page 5 An Analysis of the Staff Individualised Record (SIR) Data 2006/07 The 2006/07 Dataset The 2006/07 SIR dataset comprises 228,517 records, each relating to an individual contract, and has been gathered from 374 FE institutions. Each of the represented institutions is one of the following: • General FE college (including tertiary education) • Sixth form college • Special college - agriculture and horticulture • Special college - art, design and performing arts • Specialist designated college and higher education organisation Most institutions are either a general FE college or sixth form college, however, there is one higher education organisation included in the data. The breakdown of the number of FE institutions by type and region, can be seen in Table 1: Table 1: FE Institutions returning SIR data, by region and type RegionGeneral FE Higher education Sixth form Special college Special college Specialist Total college organisation college - agriculture and - art, design and designated (incl tertiary) horticulture performing arts college East Midlands 18 0 4 2 0 0 24 East of England 23 0 8 2 0 0 33 Greater London 35 0 12 1 0 4 52 North East 14 0 6 0 1 0 21 North West 37 0 21 2 0 0 60 South East 35 0 23 4 0 1 63 South West 27 0 2 3 1 0 33 West Midlands 33 0 11 2 1 1 48 Yorkshire and the Humber 25 1 10 2 1 1 40 Where an FE institution has not returned the data within the Where trend analyses are presented, with year-on-year time limit, data from a previous SIR collection has been used. comparisons being made from 2001/2002 through 2006/07, This process of ‘back filling’ has been employed in previous all back filled data has been filtered out of the analyses. Also, years collections, however, the 2006/07 dataset contains a the ‘effect’ that including back filled data has had on the statistics greater proportion of back filled data than in previous years, presented here is included where appropriate. For example, due to a large number of non-responses. The 2006/07 data where trends relating to teaching staff have been analysed, back contains 23% back filled data. In previous years collections filled data on teaching staff have been removed. Therefore, figures this has not been higher than 10%. This needs to be taken of teaching staff appear as 117,234 with back filled data and lower into consideration when viewing the findings presented in this without. Table 2 displays the percentages of back filled data from report. A full list of FE institutions returning data, along with previous years’ SIR collections present in the 2006/07 data and their region, number of contracts and year of most recent compares this with the percentage of back filled data found in data can be found in Appendix 1. earlier SIR data sets. 5 2815 SIR Web Brochure 2/6/08 11:25 Page 6 Further Education Workforce Data for England Introduction (cont.) Table 2: Back filled data in SIR data Academic year Number of Percent Cumulative providers percent 2001/2002 590 0.3 0.3 2002/03 3660 1.6 1.9 2003/04 2718 1.2 3.0 Back filled data in 2004/05 5952 2.6 5.7 2006/07 dataset 2005/06 40572 17.8 23.4 2006/07 175025 76.6 100 Total 228517 100 Dataset Number of Percent back Number of providers providers filled data (not backfilled) 2002/03 389 6 361 2003/04 387 4 366 Back filled data in previous years 2004/05 386 10 349 SIR datasets 2005/06 383 8 352 2006/07 376 23 286 This clearly shows the high percentage rise in back filled data between the 2005/06 data and the most recent (8% to 23%).