HC Deb 28 June 1978 vol 952 cc565-8W
Mr. Blaker

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will list the countries of origin of the 83,595 overseas students in higher and further education in 1976–77, showing so far as possible how many came from each country.

Mr. Oakes

The information is as follows:

FULL-TIME AND SANDWICH COURSE STUDENTS FROM OVERSEAS IN HIGHER AND FURTHER EDUCATION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 1976–77
Universities Non-university Higher and Further Education
Commonwealth countries and United Kingdom Dependencies:
Antigua 5 12
Australia 642 179
Bahamas 22 40
Bangladesh 314 379
Barbados 63 82
Belize (British Honduras) 15 8
Bermuda 22 27
Botswana 34 77
British Virgin Islands 1
Brunei 127 375
Canada 879 193
Cayman Islands 2
Cyprus 490 1,131
Dominica 14 20
Falkland Islands 1
Fiji 21 42
Gambia 39 52
Ghana 243 525
Gibraltar 62 74
Gilbert Island and Tuvalu 4 6
Grenada 7 25
Guyana 109 189
Hong Kong 1,299 2,878
India 808 938
Jamaica 82 229
Kenya 510 1,187
Lesotho 36 19
Malawi 86 196
Malaya 677
Malaysia 3,262 7,986
Malta 34 26
Mauritius 259 569

Universities Non-university Higher and Further Education
Montserrat 2 3
New Hebrides 3 2
New Zealand 181 69
Nigeria 1,172 4,419
Papua New Guinea 21 3
Rhodesia 387 990
Sabah 62
St. Helena-Ascension-Tristan da Cunha 3 3
St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla 3 7
St. Lucia 9 33
St. Vincent 5 19
Sarawak 80
Seychelles 41 47
Sierra Leone 116 327
Singapore 792 840
Solomon Islands 6 4
Sri Lanka 462 2,228
Swaziland 14 16
Tanzania 172 565
Tonga 5 1
Trinidad and Tobago 107 242
Turks and Caicos Islands 1
Uganda 71 195
Windward Islands 1
Zambia 207 553
Foreign countries:
Afars and Issas Territory 2 6
Afghanistan 22 19
Albania 2 10
Algeria 410 368
Andorra 1
Angola 2
Argentina 67 19
Austria 28 17
Bahrain 48 291
Belgium 87 49
Benin (Dahomey) 2
Bhutan 1 3
Bolivia 8 9
Brazil 308 67
Bulgaria 10 3
Burma 26 15
Burundi 3 3
Cameroon 46 83
Cape Verde Islands 1 1
Central African Empire 3
Chad 4 2
Chile 215 111
China 48 43
Colombia 81 55
Congo 11
Costa Rica 27 9
Cuba 2 2
Czechoslovakia 7 7
Denmark 54 60
Dominican Republic 3 2
Ecuador 16 8
Egypt 681 156
E1 Salvador 13 9
Ethiopia 40 52
Finland 47 51
France 179 308
French West Indies 2 1
Gabon 2 3
German Democratic Republic 6
Germany, Federal Republic of 581 229

Universities Non-university Higher and Further Education
Greece and Crete 1,770 1,529
Guatemala 4 2
Haiti 1 1
Honduras 5 9
Hungary 8 9
Iceland 103 35
Indonesia 199 465
Iran 2,055 7,252
Iraq 1,307 604
Ireland, Republic of 321 307
Israel 161 214
Italy 232 95
Ivory Coast 2 12
Japan 301 242
Jordan 329 821
Kampuchea (Khymer Republic) 4 4
Korea, North 1 2
Korea, Republic of 34 4
Kuwait 150 294
Laos 2 18
Lebanon 163 308
Liberia 7 18
Libya 103 398
Luxembourg 43 10
Macao 5 16
Malagasy 4 5
Maldives 1
Mali 2 4
Mauritania 4 9
Mexico 298 102
Mongolia 4 2
Morocco 9 20
Mozambique 11 20
Muscat and Oman 6 52
Namibia (South West Africa) 2
Nepal 45 16
Netherlands 131 131
Netherlands Antilles 6 7
New Caledonia 1
Nicaragua 13 6
Niger 7 8
Norway 392 277
Pakistan 549 771
Panama 12 7
Paraguay 1
Peru 58 32
Philippines 30 18
Poland 38 37
Portugal 225 102
Puerto Rico 9 3
Qatar 19 55
Reunion
Rio Muni
Romania 15 4
Rwanda 1 3
Samoa (United States)
Saudi Arabia 200 228
Senegal 13 10
Somali Democratic Republic 9 12
South Africa 341 347
Soviet Union 17 21
Spain 160 103
Sudan 516 392
Surinam 2 2
Sweden 37 51
Switzerland 162 237

Universities Non-university Higher and Further Education
Syria 113 78
Thailand 259 504
Taiwan 81 89
Tibet 7
Timor, East 1
Togo 2 1
Tunisia 4 29
Turkey 919 551
United Arab Emirates 14 162
Uruguay 19 6
United States of America 2,871 700
United States of America Virgin Islands 2
Venezuela 426 650
Vietnam 7 11
West Indies 6 38
Yemen Arab Republic 20 32
Yemen, People's Democratic Republic of 10 20
Yugoslavia 49 50
Zaire 8 12
Unknown/Inadequately specified 1,803 379
Total 34,454 49,141

These figures exclude small numbers of overseas students in non-university institutions in Northern Ireland.