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Higher education teaching staff and whether they can and are contracted to teach in Welsh

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Next update expected:July 2027

Updates

28th July 2026

Dataset updated with 2024/25 data.

15th July 2026

Removal of the shorthand note coded [t] from data.

27th November 2025
Dataset first published.

Main information

Designation
Official statistics
Data provider
Higher Education Statistics Agency
Data source
Staff record
Dataset ID
855ddbd3-672a-4f01-8a55-6c4d21519d69

Overview

Summary of dataset and variables

The data shows the number of academic teaching staff at universities in Wales who can teach in Welsh, and are contracted to teach in Welsh.

The data can be broken down by:

  • Academic year - 1 August to 31 July, e.g. 2024/25 is 1 August 2024 to 31 July 2025.

  • Contract mode - full-time or part-time.

  • Contract type - non-atypical or atypical. Atypical staff are those whose working arrangements are not permanent, involve complex employment relationships and/or involve work away from the supervision of the normal work provider. These may be characterised by a high degree of flexibility for both the work provider and the working person, and may involve a triangular relationship that includes an agent.

  • Cost centre - the area staff work in using HESA cost centre.

  • Provider

  • Sex - the sex of the staff as opposed to the gender with which they identify. Staff where this has been returned as 'Other', 'Not available' or 'Information refused' are included in the total figures.

Data collection or calculation

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects data about the characteristics of staff employed under a contract of employment at a reporting higher education provider in the UK. In Wales, it is the eight universities who return data about their staff. The Open University also return data about their staff, however it isn't possible to identify the staff for provision to Welsh students separately so the Open University is not included in this data.

Full-person equivalent populations

For staff on non-atypical contracts the data includes those whose contracts that were active on 1 December within the reporting period, for example for 2024/25 all contracts active on 1 December 2024.

For staff on atypical contracts the data includes all contracts that were active during the reporting period.

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.

Full-time equivalent population

Full-time equivalent (FTE) indicates the proportion of a full-time year being undertaken over the course of the reporting period 1 August to 31 July. The FTE is therefore counted using a population of staff who were active during the reporting period, not just on a given snapshot date.

Statistical quality

Ability to teach in Welsh is self-reported which means staff with equal abilities may not respond in the same way.

In 2023/24, there is a considerable decrease in the number of staff able to teach in Welsh. However, this may not reflect an actual change in the number of staff able to teach in Welsh as this decrease was largely concentrated at University of Wales Trinity Saint David where there was a change in how the data was collected at this university. This change meant there was a relatively large increase in the number of staff who were returned 'information not sought' when they had previously been returned as being able to teach in Welsh. The university expects that the quality of this data will improve in future years.

The number of staff able to teach in Welsh increased to 940 in 2024/25 compared to 845 staff members in 2023/24. The majority of this increase was at Bangor University due to improvements to data quality following changes to their HR systems.

Rounding applied

Numbers of staff have been rounded to the nearest 5.

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Organisation
Medr
Contact email
HEStats@medr.cymru