Age and gender statistics for HE staff
HESA publication 'Staff in Higher Education 2013/14' released today
Staff in Higher Education 2013/14 shows that there were 194,245 academic staff employed at UK higher education providers (HEPs) on 1 December 2013 and 201,535 non-academic staff.
45% of academic staff were female, but at senior levels women made up 22% of professors, and 33% of other senior academic staff.
The majority (63%) of non-academic staff in 2013/14 were women, including 54% of managerial, professional and technical staff and 82% of clerical staff.
The HESA Staff record changed in 2012/13 so that earlier definitions of Professor are not strictly comparable with recent data. However in 2003/04 only 15% of academic staff graded 'Professor' were female, and the trend shows this proportion increasing slowly over time.
The graphic and table below show the demographic breakdown of staff in UK higher education by job type:
Academic staff by contract level, age and sex 2013/14 | |||||||
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Professor | Other senior academic | Other academic | |||||
Age group | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Total |
66 years and over | 240 | 1485 | 35 | 130 | 1160 | 2590 | 5645 |
61 to 65 years | 580 | 2495 | 170 | 550 | 3205 | 4930 | 11930 |
56 to 60 years | 920 | 2780 | 435 | 890 | 6575 | 7290 | 18890 |
51 to 55 years | 965 | 3075 | 540 | 920 | 8975 | 9040 | 23510 |
46 to 50 years | 900 | 2895 | 405 | 825 | 10915 | 10685 | 26625 |
41 to 45 years | 545 | 1810 | 245 | 465 | 11250 | 11885 | 26200 |
36 to 40 years | 215 | 655 | 110 | 210 | 11895 | 12955 | 26040 |
31 to 35 years | 40 | 115 | 70 | 85 | 13940 | 15490 | 29740 |
26 to 30 years | 10 | 15 | 20 | 20 | 9770 | 10770 | 20605 |
21 to 25 years | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2430 | 2530 | 4970 |
20 years and under | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 50 | 85 |
Total | 4415 | 15335 | 2035 | 4100 | 80145 | 88220 | 194245 |
Non-academic staff by standard occupation classification, age and sex 2013/14 | |||||||
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Managerial, professional and technical | Clerical | Manual | |||||
Age group | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Total |
66 years and over | 200 | 355 | 375 | 120 | 465 | 485 | 2000 |
61 to 65 years | 1340 | 2050 | 2275 | 455 | 1535 | 1920 | 9575 |
56 to 60 years | 4135 | 4165 | 5565 | 625 | 2965 | 2760 | 20215 |
51 to 55 years | 5920 | 5330 | 6790 | 780 | 3320 | 2880 | 25015 |
46 to 50 years | 6830 | 5810 | 6930 | 985 | 3080 | 2650 | 26290 |
41 to 45 years | 7330 | 5930 | 6780 | 1225 | 2195 | 2170 | 25630 |
36 to 40 years | 7605 | 5885 | 6340 | 1490 | 1525 | 1685 | 24535 |
31 to 35 years | 8370 | 6000 | 7265 | 2095 | 1625 | 1730 | 27090 |
26 to 30 years | 5885 | 4210 | 6660 | 2265 | 1615 | 1770 | 22410 |
21 to 25 years | 2550 | 2135 | 4330 | 1750 | 1970 | 1775 | 14505 |
20 years and under | 365 | 390 | 955 | 485 | 1230 | 850 | 4270 |
Total | 50525 | 42260 | 54270 | 12280 | 21520 | 20675 | 201535 |
Publication
Staff in Higher Education 2013/14 is a downloadable publication which includes comprehensive data on HE staff broken down by demographic and contract characteristics. Staff in Higher Education 2013/14 is available to purchase now.
The introduction to the publication is published online and includes further graphs and data tables.
The next scheduled release from HESA will be the publication of finance statistics on 5 March. A schedule of HESA releases for 2015 can be found here.
Notes for Editors
- Press enquiries should be directed to:
- Simon Kemp
- HESA Press Officer
- 01242 211120
- [email protected]
- 95 Promenade, Cheltenham, GL50 1HZ.
- In the above data and annex tables 0, 1, 2 are rounded to 0. All other numbers are rounded up or down to the nearest multiple of 5.
- Atypical staff are not included in the graphic or data tables.
- HESA staff data is collected from all publicly funded higher education (HE) providers in the UK, plus the University of Buckingham, which is a non-publicly-funded HE provider. The 2013/14 data covers 162 HE providers (131 in England, 9 in Wales, 18 in Scotland and 4 in Northern Ireland).
- HESA cannot accept responsibility for any inferences or conclusions derived from the data by third parties.
- More data on HE staff can be found in our Online Data Tables page, the publication introduction, and the HESA blog.
- Definitions of the terms used in this press release can be found on-line here.
- Data intelligence notes can be found here.
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