Recruitment and Retention in the Post-16 Learning and Skills Sector

Table 2.15: Total StaffStatus ‘Occupation’ Numbers PercentageTeaching Teachers/Lecturers 50,406 52%Managers Teaching 3,823 4%Total Teaching staff 54,229 56%Non-teaching Principals/Deputy Principals 660 1%Managers Non-teaching 1,891 2%Other's 3 41,066 42%Total Total Staff 4 97,846 100%Base 174 Institutions supplying complete staffing numbersSource: YCL/MORI quantitative survey of FE HR managers, 2005Note: Percentages do not sum to 100 due to roundingBalance between part-time and full-time2.39 HR managers reported that slightly fewer than three quarters of teachingstaff are permanent (Table 2.16). Of these, the balance between fulland part-time is 52% / 48%. This compares with 88% of permanentteaching in the teacher/tutor survey.2.40 Results of the survey show that a significant proportion of staff in thepost-16 college sector are employed on a non-permanent basis, thisincludes, agency and sessional staff, as well as those on a temporarycontract.3 Calculated by subtracting Principals, Managers and Teachers from total reported staff.Includes all staff on the college payroll, not contract and agency staff.4 Calculated based on total staff employed directly by college20