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Data Provider: Welsh Government Academic staff (excluding atypical) teaching in Welsh at Welsh higher education institutions in Full-Time Equivalents (FTE) by cost centre and Welsh teaching ability
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[Collapse]Teaching in WelshStaff teaching through Welsh.<br /> [Filtered]
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[Collapse]ModeMode of employment is an attribute of the contract, not the person. Therefore, a person will be counted as wholly part-time, even if they hold a number of part-time contracts that sum to one FTE. [Filtered]
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Sex 1[Filter]
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Institution 1[Filter]
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[Collapse]Welsh abilityStaff with the ability to teach through Welsh.<br />(Ascending)[Filter]
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Welsh ability 1
[Collapse]Cost centreThe area staff work in, grouped by HESA Cost Centre.[Filtered]
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Cost centre 1
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[Collapse]All7406,3809108,030
AllMedicine, dentistry & health1201,7052352,055
Agriculture, forestry & veterinary science10701095
Biological, mathematical & physical sciences459451351,125
Engineering & technology408452501,135
Architecture & planning5950105
Administration & business studies7558045700
Social studies90860851,035
Humanities & language based studies & archaeology12047015610
Design, creative & performing arts6532040420
Education13541060605
Academic services206020100
Central administration & services, staff and student facilities5201540
Premises and Residences & Catering0000

Metadata

Title

Staff at Welsh HEIs in FTE

Last update

21 September 2023 21 September 2023

Next update

July 2024 (Provisional)

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Higher Education Staff Record, Higher Education Statistics Agency

Contact email

HigherEducationAndStudentFinance.Stats@gov.wales

Languages covered

English and Welsh

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

General description

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collect data on students, staff and resources of higher education institutions (HEIs) in the UK. Further information about HESA and their data collections, including some online tables, can be found on their website www.hesa.ac.uk

Rounding strategy
The presentation of figures in this table follows the principals of the HESA rounding strategy. The strategy is intended to prevent the disclosure of personal information about any individual. This strategy involves rounding all numbers to the nearest 5. A summary of this strategy is as follows:
• Numbers less than 2.5 are rounded to 0.
• All other numbers are rounded to the nearest 5

Total figures are also subject to this rounding methodology; the consequence of which is that the sum of numbers in each row or column may not match the total shown precisely.

Data collection and calculation

Figures are based on the HESA Staff Record. Data is required for all academic staff, and for non-academic staff if the contract is not atypical. Data also need not be returned for agency staff, self-employed staff, honorary contracts where the contract is not deemed to be a contract of employment and staff not employed by the HEI, but by a company consolidated into the HEI's accounts.
Atypical staff are excluded from the data. Atypical staff are those members of staff whose contracts involve working arrangements that are not permanent, involve complex employment relationships and/or involve work away from the supervision of the normal work provider.
Staff with a contract full-time equivalent (FTE) of zero are not counted in this population.

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

The HESA staff contract session population is an indicator of those contracts that are active during the HESA reporting period. Full-time equivalent (FTE) data is based on the HESA academic staff contract session population and is counted using the population of staff who were active at any point during the reporting period.

Statistical quality

Figures are based on the HESA Staff Record. Data is required for all academic staff, and for non-academic staff if the contract is not atypical. Data also need not be returned for agency staff, self-employed staff, honorary contracts where the contract is not deemed to be a contract of employment and staff not employed by the HEI, but by a company consolidated into the HEI's accounts.

More information on the staff record can be found in the section for Staff record definitions on the HESA website: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/definitions/staff

Between 2014/15 and 2015/16 the University of South Wales reported a significant drop in staff numbers. This was due to a combination of normal contractual changes and turnover of employees, limited institutional restructuring, a combination of HR and payroll systems, and a data cleansing exercise.

In 2023, an inconsistency was identified between our method for calculating full-time equivalents (FTE) and HESA’s. This resulted in an under-reporting of the number of FTE academic staff compared to the HESA data. A method consistent with HESA’s has now been implemented, with data revised back to 2012/13. Data for 2010/11 and 2011/12 has been removed due to issues with replicating HESA figures.

In 2023, an inconsistency was identified between our method for grouping cost centres and HESA’s. Data has been revised back to 2012/13 to align with cost centre groupings used by HESA from 2012/13.





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