HC Deb 06 December 1978 vol 959 c659W
Mr. David Watkins

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are the current numbers of full-time students taking sciences, engineering, arts and social science.

Mr. Oakes:

The information for full-time and sandwich course students at universities and at maintained, assisted and grant-aided establishments of further education in Great Britain in the academic year 1977–78 is as follows:

Number of Students (000's)
Sciences … … 153
Engineering … … 128
Social science1 … … 254
Other2 … … 286
Total … … 821

1. Including architecture and vocational subjects.

2. Including arts, teacher training, GCE, CSE and some non-advanced courses with unknown subject groups.