HC Deb 27 July 1978 vol 954 cc869-70W
Dr. Hampson

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will list the number of part-time students on first degree courses in each university in the United Kingdom; and what percentage each is of the numbers of full-time students.

Mr. Oakes

Following is the information, which relates to part-time students on courses at undergraduate level lasting an academic session or longer in the academic year 1976–77, the most recent year for which figures are available.

Part-time students
University Number As a percentage of full-time and sandwich undergraduate students
Aston 6 0.14
Birmingham 148 2.23
Bradford 78 2.10
Bristol 112 1.94
City 3 0.14
Durham 12 0.33
East Anglia 1 0.03
Essex 17 0.85
Exeter 59 1.69
Hull 52 1.31
Leeds 6 0.08
Liverpool 34 0.54

London University 740 6.49
Manchester 56 0.58
Newcastle 96 1.69
Nottingham 34 0.66
Reading 19 0.44
Sheffield 137 2.24
Southam[...] 7 0.15
Surrey 20 0.82
Sussex 1 0.03
Warwick 1 0.03
University [...]65 1.13
Aberdeen 1 0.02
Dundee 1[...] 0.67
Edinbury 125 1.56
Glasgow 51[...] 5.95
Heriot-Wa 1[...] 0.50
St. Andrew [...] 0.03
Strathclvde 5[...] [...].96
Queen's Beltas 27 [...].30
Ulster [...]rain 1 0.81
United Kingdom 1 [...].67
Open University (calentar year 1977) 116

There were [...] part-time students as defined above in 1976[...] at the following universities or colleges:

Bath, [...], Cambridge, Keele, Kent, Lancaster, Leicester, London Graduate Schoo of Business Studies, Loughboroug Manchester Business School, University on Manchester Institute of Science and [...] Oxford Salford [...] and Stiring