§ 44. Mr. Flanneryasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many students will be admitted to (a) English universities and (b) Welsh universities in 1982–83; and what were the figures for the two previous academic years.
§ Mr. WaldegraveIn 1980–81 there were 90,308 new entrants to universities in England and 8,209 to those in Wales. No projections for these countries for 1981–82 or 1982–83 are available. The University Grants Committee has set the universities student number targets for home and EC students to be achieved by 1983–84 or 1984–85. For English universities as a whole these amount to a 5 per cent. reduction over 1979–80, while for Wales the reduction is 7 per cent. However, it is for each university to decide what the intake should be each year to meet these targets.