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HE Institutions 2009

HE employment

Full-time academic staff at engineering-related departmental cost-centres at UK HE institutions by gender and grade, 2007/08

The tables show the number and proportions of full-time academic staff at engineering-related departmental cost-centres at UK HE institutions by gender and grade for 2007/08. Published by UKRC in December 2009.
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Full-time academic staff at science-related departmental cost-centres at UK HE institutions by gender and grade, 2007/08

The tables show the number and proportions of full-time academic staff at science-related departmental cost-centres (Biosciences, Chemistry, Physics, and Earth, marine & environmental sciences) at UK HE institutions by gender and grade for 2007/08. Published by UKRC in November 2009.
 

Full-time academic staff at Pharmacy & Pharmacology departmental cost centres of UK HE institutions by gender and grade, 2002/03 and 2007/08

The table shows the number and proportions of full-time academic staff at pharmacy & pharmacology departmental cost centres of UK HE institutions by gender and grade (professor, senior lecturer/researcher, lecturer, researcher, and other grades) in 2002/03 and 2007/08.  Published by UKRC in October 2009.

 

 

Full-time academic staff at Physics departmental cost-centres of UK HE institutions by gender and grade, 2002/03 and 2007/08

The table shows the number and proportions of full-time female and male academic staff at Physics departmental cost-centres of UK HE institutions by grade for 2002/03 and 2007/08. A chart is also included. Published by UKRC in September 2009. 
 
 

Full-time academic staff at Pharmacy & Pharmacology departmental cost-centres of UK HE institutions by gender and grade, 2002/03 and 2006/07

The table shows the number and proportions of female and male academic staff by grade at Pharmacy & Pharmacology departmental cost-centres at UK HE institutions for 2002/03 and 2006/07.  Published by UKRC in September 2009.
 
 

Full-time professors in Biosciences at UK HE institutions by gender, 1996/97 and 2006/07

The table shows the number and proportions of female and male professors at Biosciences departmental cost-centres at UK HE institutions in 1996/97 and 2006/07.  Published by UKRC in September 2009.
 
 

Professors in STEM departmental cost-centres at UK HE institutions by gender, 2006/07

The table shows the number and proportions of female and male professors at STEM departmental cost-centres at UK HE institutions in 2006/07.  Published by UKRC in June 2009.  
 
 

Full-time STEM academics at UK HE institutions by gender and grade, 2003/04 and 2006/07

The table shows the number and proportions of female and male full-time academics at STEM departmental cost centres of UK HE institutions by grade (Professor, Senior Lecturer/Researcher, Lecturer, Researcher, Other grades) in 2003/04 and 2006/07.  Published from UKRC August 2009.

 


 
 

Research grant success

Research grant success by gender and research institution in the UK, 1997 to 2008

The tables show the following three types of statistics of research grant success by gender and selected research institutions in the UK in 1997 and 2008. 

  • Proportions of female and male applicants of the total applicants by institution
  • The number of female and male successful applicants by institution
  • Proportions of successful female applicants of all female applicants and successful male applicants of all male applicants
Published by UKRC in October 2009.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Stats of the month

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Girls do well in SET A Levels

(A full report is available here)

Girls are consistently performing well in those A level SET subjects that they attempt. The trend in the UK for girls  being slightly more likely than boys (who are also performing well) to obtain a grade A-E in SET A level subjects continues in 2009.  The differences in performance between girls and boys are greatest in information and communication technologies and in computing where the success rate (obtaining a grade A-E) of girls was 2.6 percentage points higher than that of boys; and in physics when it was 2.0 percentage points higher.

Girls are also achieving a higher percentage than boys of A grades in SET A levels, but not consistently across all subjects.  The subjects that show the largest differences in performance are:
  • technology subjects where 21.3% of girls scored an A grade compared to 15.4% of boys : a difference of 5.9 percentage points
  • physics: where 36.4% of girls scored an A grade compared to 30.7 % of boys: a difference of 5.7 percentage points
  • Information and communication technologies (ICT): where13.3% of girls scored an A grade compared to 8.2 % of boys: a difference of 5.1 percentage points.
Only in further maths and computing did boys achieve better than girls with 58.6% of boys achieving an A grade compared to 57.2% of girls in further maths: a difference of 1.4 percentage points. In computing 15.8% ob boys who attempted the subject achieved an A grade compared to 15.0% of girls.

Figure 1 below shows the actual numbers of girls attempting all SET A level subjects, and also charts this number as a percentage of the total entrants. This shows that girls are over 50% of entrants only in biology, although they have nearly reached this proportion in chemistry where they are 48.4%. In maths, technology and ICT girls ‘hover’ around the 40% mark. In further mathematics, and combined sciences they make up nearly one third of entrants. In physics they are just over 20% of entrants, and in computing they are not quite 10% of entra.