§ Mr. Hannanasked the Secretary of State for Scotland (1) if he is satisfied that there will be sufficient places in Scottish universities in 1970 to meet the increasing need; and if he will make a statement;
(2) how many qualified applicants were refused admission to a university last year;
100W(3) if he is aware that 60 qualified applicants from Glasgow's secondary schools did not gain entry to university; and what information he has from education authorities of their numbers of similarly disappointed students.
§ Mr. RossScottish universities will share fully in the expansion of university places provided for in the present quinquennium. Information about the total number of qualified Scottish applicants who were refused admission to a university in 1967 is not available because three of the Scottish universities are not fully participant members of the Universities Central Council on Admissions.
I understand that, of the 1,151 Glasgow school-leavers with at least minimum qualifications who sought to obtain university places in 1967, 1,091 were admitted.4nd that of the remaining 60, 28 entered other full-time courses of higher education. I have no detailed information of this kind in respect of other areas, but I am satisfied that the number of well-qualified Scottish applicants who fail to obtain university places is not large.