What is the UK's Aggregate Staff Student Ratio?

How many staff to how many students? It depends on how you look at it.

In 2010/11 according to HESA data there were 2,562,100 University students.

In that same year there were 381785 employed in Higher education.

This gives a ratio of 6.7 students per staff member. Of course this includes everyone from Vice Chancellor's to cleaners. That is a very small and very interesting number.

What about the ratio of students to academic staff?

In 2010/11 there were 181348 academic staff employed in Higher education.

This gives a ratio of 14.1 students per academic member of staff. This is a low and somewhat interesting number. However, this includes staff classed as "Research Only".

Ok what about just those who teach?

In 2010/11 There were 140544 academic staff involved in teaching in the UK.

This gives a ratio of 18.2 students per member of academic staff involved in teaching in the UK.This is still an interesting and respectable number. However this number includes those members of academic staff that do both teaching and research. I also believe it is a head count and includes part time academic staff.

From a student's perspective, what is the ratio of students per academic staff member corrected for research and for part time?

I am sorry, I don't know that number. That is where the data dry up. I also don't know how they are classed. Sometimes a University might class someone as an academic member of staff that I might not. My guess is that it would be in the low 20s.

This data also excludes hourly paid lecturers and those on zero hours contracts.

6.7 students to each member of staff. That is an interesting number. VERY interesting.