§ Mr. Charles Morrisonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many students in each of the past five years who have entered the universities in England and Wales were state-aided, local authority aided, or paying their own fees.
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1.Full-time graduating and first diploma students entering universities for the first time … … … 26,911 29,678 31,146 32,684 36,886 2.Number of awards by the Department of Education and Science … … … 3,392 3,519 3,498 1,408 27 3.Number of awards by the Scottish Education Department … … … 10 5,133* 4,237 4,358 5,413 4.Number of awards by local education authorities in England and Wales … … … 17,334 20,605 21,778 24,997 29,480 5.Number of awards by education authorities in Scotland … … … 2,740 — — — — * This figure includes a number of awards made to students who were already in the second or subsequent years of their university courses. These five sets of figures are not strictly comparable. Estimates can be derived from them of the numbers of home