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The number of EU nationality academic staff fell by 1% while the number of non-EU nationality staff grew by 9%.</p> <p>The proportion of academic staff with a non-UK nationality has stayed at 32% for the last three years with EU nationality staff leaving the sector while non-EU nationality staff numbers continue to rise.</p> <p>Disciplines with the highest proportion of non-UK nationality staff include Economics & econometrics (68%) and Chemical engineering (56%). The highest proportion of EU nationality staff (35%) were working in Modern languages departments.</p> <p>The HESA data includes information about the inflow and outflow of academic staff in the UK higher education sector. The 4% rise in total numbers includes 36,430 new staff entering the sector while 32,105 left.</p> <p>9% of the outflow from the UK academic staff population whose destinations were known went to work in higher education overseas while 16% left to enter the UK private sector.</p> <p>Among new entrants to the sector, 25% had previously been students in the UK and 25% had been working in the UK private sector.</p> <p>Today’s open data Official Statistics release <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230322155920/https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/staff"><em>Higher Education Staff Data</em></a> includes detailed breakdowns of staff demographic and contract characteristics in five topics:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230322155920/https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/staff/working-in-he">Who’s working in HE?</a> </li> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230322155920/https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/staff/areas">What areas do they work in?</a> </li> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230322155920/https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/staff/employment-conditions">What are their employment conditions?</a> </li> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230322155920/https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/staff/salaries">What are their salaries?</a></li> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230322155920/https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/staff/location">Where do they work, come from, and go to?</a></li> </ul> <p>Most data tables include eight years of data, with older data available through HESA’s <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230322155920/https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/publications" target="_blank">publications archive</a>.</p> <p><strong>Notes </strong></p> <ul> <li>Headline statistics in this press release exclude ‘<strong>atypical</strong>’ staff. Atypical contracts are generally non-permanent contracts for short, one-off, or as-and-when tasks. Atypical staff figures are counted differently and shown separately and should not be added to non-atypical figures. See the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230322155920/https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/definitions/staff#terms-employment" target="_blank">Terms of employment</a> definition for more detail.  </li> <li>Statistics in this press release relate to staff employed at UK higher education providers on 1 December 2021 in the academic year running from 1 August 2021 to 31 July 2022.</li> <li>Percentages exclude unknown values.  </li> <li>See <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230322155920/https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/definitions/staff" target="_blank">Definitions: Staff</a> for definitions of terms used in the release and explanation of the coverage of statistics. </li> <li>See <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230322155920/https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/upcoming" target="_blank">Upcoming data releases</a> for a schedule of Official Statistics releases from HESA. </li> <li>HESA is now part of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230322155920/http://www.jisc.ac.uk/">Jisc</a>. 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