Mr. R. C. Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many civil servants in his Department of the rank of principal or equivalent and above are graduates of Oxford and Cambridge universities; and how many are graduates of other universities.
§ Mr. TomlinsonComprehensive statistics of the university background of all Foreign and Commonwealth Office personnel are not available, but it is estimated that of the staff of the rank of principal, or the equivalent, and above, some 630 are graduates of Oxford and Cambridge universities and 170 are graduates of other universities.
Mr. R. C. Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many civil servants in his Department of the rank of deputy secretary or equivalent and above are graduates of Oxford and Cambridge and how many are graduates of other universities.
§ Mr. TomlinsonOf the 50 staff of the rank of deputy secretary, or the equivalent, and above, 42 are graduates of Oxford and Cambridge universities, and seven are graduates of other universities.
254Wexpansion of the full-time student population for Hong Kong's three institutions of higher education; and how this figure for full-time student population will coin-pare with the present time and with 10 years ago.
§ Mr. LuardIt is planned to increase total gross expenditure on the three institutes of higher education from HK$ 301,712,000 in 1976–77 to HK$ 406.500,000 in 1980–81.
Comparative statistics for the expansion of the full-time student population are: