§ Mr. Whiteheadasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish the total number of full-time equivalent students, advanced and non-advanced, at each university in the United Kingdom in 1975–76, 1977–78, 1979–80 and 1980–81 broken down by full-time, part-time day, evening only and sandwich modes, detailing the weights applied to each mode of student to convert it to a full-time equivalent.
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Academic Year 1977–78 University Student Load Undergraduate Postgraduate University or College Full-time Part-time Full-time Part-time Total load Aston 4,315 — 939 199 5,453 Bath 3,114 85 536 144 3,879 Birmingham 6,816 44 1,670 227 8,757 Bradford 4,027 33 690 141 4,891 Bristol 5,730 37 893 150 6,810 Brunel 2,068 — 439 240 2,747 Cambridge 9,101 — 1,938 643 11,682 City 2,156 — 426 257 2,839 Durham 3,617 19 646 97 4,379 East Anglia 3,225 — 353 61 3,639 Essex 2,171 7 499 47 2,724 Exeter 3,644 38 628 161 4,471 Hull 4,221 37 618 150 5,026 Keele 2,262 — 321 284 2,867 Kent 3,202 7 484 95 3,788 Lancaster 3,631 — 566 216 4,413 Leeds 8,009 2 1,753 375 10,139 Leicester 3,313 — 703 273 4,289 Liverpool 6,226 24 1,061 358 7,669 London Graduate School of Business Studies — — 244 83 327 London University 27,752 1,262 9,800 5,077 43,891 Loughborough 4,175 31 654 214 5,074 Manchester Business School — — 151 2 153 Manchester 8,834 12 1,777 370 10,993 University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology 2,736 — 1,047 59 3,842 Newcastle 5,953 38 1,094 158 7,243 Nottingham 5,277 19 953 269 6,518 Oxford 9,204 49 2,961 664 12,878 Reading 4,540 11 1,010 171 5,732 Salford 3,824 — 335 229 4,458 Sheffield 6,235 59 1,255 313 7,862 Southampton 4,914 — 990 126 6.030 Surrey 2,725 3 482 153 3,363 Sussex 3,283 8 876 82 4,249 Warwick 3,884 — 459 74 4,407 York 2,494 — 514 72 3,080 Total England 176,678 1,825 39,765 12,304 230,572 Aberystwyth University College 2,546 1 566 6 3,119 Bangor University College 2,440 26 561 41 3,068 Cardiff University College 4,022 35 1,012 120 5,189 St. David's, Lampeter 554 — 19 9 582 Swansea University College 2,776 34 725 26 3,561 Welsh National School of Medicine 2,270 7 313 19 726 University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology 610 39 56 21 2,609 Total Wales 15,218 142 3,252 242 18,854 Aberdeen 4,481 33 553 62 5,129 Dundee 2,510 5 337 74 2,926 Edinburgh 7,917 83 1,305 558 9,863 Glasgow 8,544 139 851 493 10,027
§ Dr. BoysonInformation on full-time equivalent students in the universities is published in the student load tables in volume 6 of "Statistics of Education" and is analysed into full and part-time students for both undergraduates and postgraduates. The information for 1975–76 appears in the 1976 edition of the volume, page 134, a copy of which is in the Library. That for 1977–78, which has not yet been published, is given in the following table, while that for 1979–80 and 1980–81 is not yet available. The method of calculating student load is a matter for each university who make its own assessment of the load represented by part-time students.
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Undergraduate Postgraduate University or College Full-time Part-time Full-time Part-time Total load Heriot-Watt 2,416 9 234 94 2,753 St.Andrews 2,955 — 241 90 3,286 Stirling 2,181 — 258 43 2,482 Strathclyde 5,253 25 994 264 6,536 Total Scotland 36,257 294 4,773 1,678 43,002 Total Great Britain 228,153 2,261 47,790 14,224 292,428 Queen's, Belfast 5,011 143 677 280 6,111 Ulster, Coleraine 1,633 — 110 179 1,922 Total Northern Ireland 6,644 143 787 459 8,033 Total United Kingdom 234,797 2,404 48,577 14,683 300,461