Courses of Higher Education

HC Deb 29 November 1962 vol 668 cc83-4W

45. Mr. Swingler

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will set out in detail the basis of the Treasury's estimate that the proportion of those able to undertake courses of higher education in the current quinquennium will increase by at least 1 per cent.

Mr. Boyd-Carpenter

In this, the first year of the new university quinquennium, the entry into the three main types of higher education institution—universities,

The latest information available is for 1961. The figures for that year were:

colleges of advanced technology and teacher training colleges—is some 55,000 or 7.8 per cent. of the relevant age-group of 714,000. On the basis of present plans of expansion the corresponding entry at the beginning of the next quinquennium will be at least 73,000 or 9 per cent. of the relevant age-group of 812,000.