§ 46. Mr. McNamaraasked the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish the figures for the past five years, both absolutely and as a percentage, of those graduates completing their first degrees who were still unemployed at the end of the year in which they 407W graduated; how many were classified as in temporary work; and what were the individual percentage figures for the Universities and Polytechnic Colleges.
§ Mr. Dudley SmithFigures are available only for university graduates. Of those graduating with first degrees in
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Believed to be unemployed In temporary employment University or College Number Percentage of total first degree graduates Number Percentage of total first degree graduates ENGLAND Aston 18 2.6 6 0.9 Bath 15 3.7 9 2.2 Birmingham 53 4.3 22 1.8 Bradford 46 6.4 18 2.5 Bristol 30 2.4 64 5.1 Brunel 16 5.4 8 2.7 Cambridge 123 4.6 40 1.5 City 10 1.9 19 3.5 Durham 13 1.5 21 2.4 East Anglia 62 9.9 35 5.6 Essex 48 11.6 3 0.7 Exeter 42 5.4 16 2.1 Hull 53 5.1 27 2.6 Keele 30 8.0 25 6.6 Kent 27 4.9 23 4.2 Lancaster 93 13.8 17 2.5 Leeds 102 5.4 67 3.6 Leicester 58 7.6 38 5.0 Liverpool 42 3.5 15 1.2 London University 328 3.8 384 4.5 Loughborough 30 6.1 13 2.6 Manchester 90 5.5 54 3.3 University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology 46 6.6 20 2.9 Newcastle 91 7.3 23 1.8 Nottingham 72 5.5 20 1.5 Oxford 26 1.1 73 3.2 Reading 37 3.2 28 2.4 Salford 35 4.9 8 1.1 Sheffield 91 7.2 41 3.2 Southampton 80 8.0 59 5.9 Surrey 26 5.6 28 6.0 Sussex 79 10.2 20 2.6 Warwick 22 4.8 34 7.4 York 32 5.9 26 4.8 WALES Aberystwyth University College 18 2.9 29 4.7 Bangor University College 23 4.1 27 4.9 Cardiff University College 29 4.0 20 2.8 St. David's Lampeter 5 7.1 7 10.0 Swansea University College 24 3.0 12 1.5 University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology 25 6.4 8 2.0 SCOTLAND Aberdeen 51 4.7 27 2.5 Dundee 21 6.1 2 0.6 Edinburgh 76 4.6 41 2.5 Glasgow 12 1.1 17 1.5 Heriot Watt 34 6.5 — — St. Andrews 17 3.6 5 1.1 Stirling 8 6.5 — — Strathclyde 22 2.0 1 0.1 TOTAL GREAT BRITAIN 2,331 4.7 1,499 3.0 1971, 2,331 graduates or 4.7 per cent. were unemployed and 1,499 or 3.0 per cent. were in temporary work at the end of last year. Since the statistics were first analysed in this way in 1971, I regret that I cannot give corresponding figures for earlier years. Details for individual universities are as follows: