HC Deb 02 July 1979 vol 969 cc480-3W
Mr. Allan Roberts

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list in the Official Report the total number of students attending each university in the United Kingdom broken down into full-time, sandwich, part-time day and evening-only modes of attendance.

Dr. Boyson

The universities in Northern Ireland are the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. The available information for each university in Great Britain is shown in the attached table.

University or College Full-time 1977–78 Sandwich Part-time 1978–79Full-time and Sandwich
Hull 4,919 346 5,148
Keele 2,500 423 2,805
Kent 3,728 179 3,899
Lancaster 4,385 47 287 4,612
Leeds 10,026 740 10,114
Leicester 4,061 654 4,226
Liverpool 7,329 546 7,555
London Graduate School of Business Studies 215 1 12 217
London University 37,829 8,608 39,384
Loughborough 3,221 1,854 377 5,230
Manchester Business School 149 7 146
Manchester 10,710 866 10,973
University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology 3,758 132 3,837
Newcastle 7,280 447 7,463
Nottingham 6,366 1 604 6,528
Oxford 12,162 1,154 12,433
Reading 5,461 162 338 5,957
Salford 3,182 975 184 4,377
Sheffield 7,553 312 7,645
Southampton 5,966 275 6,077
Surrey 1,547 1,609 282 3,368
Sussex 4,336 164 4,336
Warwick 4,530 303 4,885
York 3,042 125 3,174
University of Wales 18,079 666 947 19,553
Aberdeen 5,249 120 5,489
Dundee 2,850 187 2,881
Edinburgh 9,713 934 9,793
Glasgow 9,486 1,148 9,417
Heriot-Watt 2,983 196 2,790
St. Andrews 3,198 215 3,253
Stirling 2,448 146 2,715
Strathclyde 6,344 600 2,413
Total Great Britain 266,479 14,046 27,287 289,184
Open University (calendar year 1978) 87 66,044‡ ..
*Mainly students on long-term courses leading to degrees; excludes those on short courses, e.g. most post-experience and adult education.
† Provisional.
‡ In the current year there are about 70,000 students at the Open University.

Mr. Allan Roberts

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list in the Official Report the total expenditure of each university in the United Kingdom in 1978–79.

Mr. Mark Carlisle

This information is collected only by academic years and is therefore not yet available for 1978–79. Provisional figures of expenditure by universities in Great Britain for the academic year 1977–78 are provided below.

ACADEMIC YEAR 1977–78 PROVISIONAL OUTTURN
University or College £
Aston 13,057,353
Bath 8,406,189
Birmingham 27,952,672
Bradford 12,477,047
Bristol 21,069,036
Brunel 7,949,066
Cambridge 32,479,318
City 8,700,734
Durham 10,406,093
East Anglia 8,848,909
Essex 6,322,571
Exeter 9,402,952
Hull 9,920,126
Keele 6,230,418
Kent 7,610,121
Lancaster 9,269,168
Leeds 26,725,004
Leicester 10,709,051
Liverpool 23,335,948
London Graduate School of Business Studies 1,824,117
London 188,492,661
Loughborough 11,925,719
Manchester Business School 1,358,049
Manchester 35,756,388
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology 13,267,807
Newcastle 21,862,108
Nottingham 18,780,108
Oxford 35,717,667
Reading 14,472,768
Salford 11,859,054
Sheffield 21,710,179
Southampton 18,496,259
Surrey 9,205,295
Sussex 12,397,360
University or College—contd. £
Warwick 10,826,686
York 7,671,317
University of Wales 51,345,316
Aberdeen 17,850,864
Dundee 10,339,306
Edinburgh 33,125,645
Glasgow 28,957,835
Heriot-Watt 7,175,538
St. Andrews 7,728,106
Stirling 5,828,815
Strathclyde 16,478,637
Total Great Britain 877,325,482

The universities in Northern Ireland are the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

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