§ Dr. Hampsonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many mature students were studying for degrees in the last three years.
§ Dr. BoysonStudents are classified as young or mature according to their age of entry into higher education. Taking the age of entry for a mature student to be 21 or over, the estimated total number of mature students, including overseas, in all years of first degree courses in Great Britain is as follows:
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Overseas Students at Universities and Further Education Establishments 1979180 Further education England and Wales Universities United Kingdom Total Advanced Non-Advanced Commonwealth Countries Cyprus 479 488 593 1,560 Hong Kong 772 3,321 2,037 6,130 India 301 259 558 1,118 Kenya 366 244 456 1,066 Malaysia 4,008 4,374 5,235 13,617 Nigeria 2,317 1,234 1,346 4,897 Rhodesia 601 880 560 2,041 Singapore 547 202 1,010 1,759 Sri Lanka 773 490 373 1,636 Foreign Countries Greece 604 630 1,667 2,901 Iran 2,015 4,271 1,430 7,716 Iraq 311 673 1,383 2,367 Jordan 225 940 476 1,641 Turkey 285 320 634 1,239 USA 289 453 2,478 3,220 All Countries (including those not listed above) 19,854 25,685 35,461 81,000
1977–78 87,000 1978–79 92,000 1979–80 95,000 Part-time students are included in these figures. Sufficient information is not yet available to make estimates for 1980–81.