§ Mr. T. Smithasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education whether he will give the total number of students admitted to universities in 1936–37 and the percentage to the pupils who left grant-aided schools during the year ended 31st July, 1936, and went to a university?
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Mr. LindsayThe total number of full-time entrants to universities in England and Wales for the academic year 1936–37 was 10,885, and the number of pupils who left grant-aided secondary schools during the year 1935–36 and went to a university was 3,578. In drawing inferences from these figures it must be remembered that the former figure includes students from overseas who formed over 10 per cent. of the whole body of full-time students, and that a number of secondary school pupils proceed to a university after an interval, and these are not included in the returns furnished to the Board.