§ Mr. Georgeasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what percentage of pupils in secondary schools in each local education authority go on to further or higher education.
§ Mr. Oakes:The percentage of pupils leaving maintained secondary schools in England in 1977 who were reported as intending to go on to further or higher education is given below for each local education authority with 4,000 or more leavers. The total number of school leavers in each authority listed is also shown, together with the percentage of leavers whose destination was unknown. These figures are all estimates derived from a 10 per cent. sample of school leavers, and corresponding estimates for the authorities with fewer than 4,000 leavers could be subject to unacceptably large sampling errors.
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Percentage of leavers going to: Full-time: All leavers during the academic year 1976–77 further education Unknown destination 1.Avon … … … 11,930 18 11 2.Bedfordshire … … … 6,550 22 12 3.Berkshire … … … 9,300 24 5 4.Birmingham … … … 17,050 15 16 5.Bradford … … … 7,310 14 15 6.Buckinghamshire … … … 7,270 30 7 7.Cambridgeshire. … … … 7,190 19 7 8. Cheshire. … … … 13,090 21 12 9. Cleveland. … … … 11,030 13 9 10. Cornwall … … … 5,270 32 6 11.Coventry. … … … 5,370 19 12 12.Croydon. … … … 4,460 21 13 13.Cumbria. … … … 7,710 19 4 14.Derbyshire. … … … 12,660 19 6 15.Devon. … … … 11,990 27 7 16.Doncaster. … … … 5,020 14 12 17.Dorset. … … … 7,430 25 7 18.Dudley. … … … 4,180 22 6 19.Durham. … … … 9,220 15 9 20.East Sussex … … … 6,670 25 10 21.Essex … … … 20,090 17 9 22.Gloucestershire … … … 7,370 22 3 23.Hampshire … … … 20,170 20 8 24.Havering … … … 4,070 16 8 25.Hereford and Worcester … … … 8,450 27 7 26.Hertfordshire … … … 14,790 28 8 27.Humberside … … … 13,840 14 8 28.ILEA … … … 31,910 14 19 29.Kent … … … 21,120 26 5 30.Kirklees … … … 4,990 19 4 31.Lancashire … … … 18,290 23 9 32.Leeds … … … 10,780 16 9 33.Leicestershire … … … 12,250 IX 17 34.Lincolnshire … … … 7,870 23 8 35.Liverpool … … … 9,910 14 7 36.Manchester … … … 7,790 11 15 37.Newcastle-upon-Tyne … … … 4,040 11 9 38.Norfolk … … … 8,550 22 8 39.Northamptonshire … … … 7,620 17 9 40.Northumberland … … … 4,120 17 3 41.North Yorkshire … … … 9,200 25 9 42.Nottinghamshire … … … 14,770 17 6 43.Oxfordshire … … … 6,600 23 4 44.Salford … … … 4,330 11 8 45.Salop … … … 4,920 28 5 46.Sandwell … … … 5,160 12 6 47.Sefton … … … 4,770 22 5 48.Sheffield … … … 8,490 16 8 49.Somerset … … … 5,060 30 4 50.Staffordshire … … … 14,770 20 4 51.Stockport … … … 4,170 21 12 52.Suffolk … … … 7,510 17 8 53.Sunderland … … … 4,980 13 11 54.Surrey … … … 12,900 19 12 55.Wakefield … … … 4,500 16 2 56.Walsall … … … 5,000 13 9 57.Warwickshire … … … 7,180 28 5 58.West Sussex … … … 8,210 23 6 59.Wigan … … … 5,040 21 4 60.Wiltshire. … … … 7,530 21 6 61.Wirral … … … 5,140 21 12 62.Wolverhampton … … … 4,470 21 5 63.England … … … 665,130 19 9 populations, as well as differences in the proportion of pupils whose destination was unknown and the possible effect of statistical sampling errors.