Trends relating ethnicity issues include:

• 6% of the HE workforce are non-white
• 7% of the FE workforce are of non-white origin including  3% African/African Caribbean, 2% Other, 1% Indian and 1% Bangladeshi/Pakistani
• less than 1% of the workforce of mainstream colleges are Black
• fewer than 3% of staff at senior managerial level in FE are from ethnic minority groups

Source: Black Staff in FE 2002 and Challenging Racism 2002

Staff numbers in further education colleges by primary role, sex and ethnicity, 2000/01

Number of staff in further education colleges by primary role, including teaching, support and other support, plus by gender and ethnicity for 2000/01.