§ Mr. Richard Wainwrightasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for each English university and polytechnic the numbers of overseas students who attended full-time courses in 1978, 1979 and 1980; what are the estimated numbers for courses during 1981–82; and if he will make a statement.
§ Dr. BoysonReliable information in respect of individual universities and polytechnics for the current academic year is not yet available. Estimates are not made by the Department of the numbers of overseas students in individual institutions for 1981–82. The numbers of overseas students at each English university and polytechnic in the academic years 1978–79 and 1979–80 are given in the following tables. They include postgraduates and are for students on all years of their course.
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Overseas Students in Polytechnics Polytechnics 1978/79 1979/80 City of Birmingham 335 243 Brighton 701 759 Bristol 175 235 Hatfield 313 352 Huddersfield 429 524 Lanchester 306 211 Leeds 609 698 City of Leicester 330 242 Liverpool 378 384 Polytechnic of Central London 1318 695 City of London 561 459 Kingston 422 383 Polytechnic of North London 900 874 North East London 1226 927 South Bank 658 648 Thames 341 343 Middlesex 1169 1147 Manchester 522 608 Newcastle/Tyne 270 271 North Staffordshire 229 151 Oxford 361 364 Plymouth 394 353 Portsmouth 603 582 Preston 149 103 Sheffield 323 240 Sunderland 525 465 Teesside 643 573 Trent 237 189 Wolverhampton 282 283
Overseas Students in Universities University or College 1978/79 1979/80 Aston 1035 989 Bath 335 324 Birmingham 1253 1260 Bradford 715 703 Bristol 345 287 Brunel 422 329 Cambridge 990 975 City 752 583 Durham 227 233 East Anglia 348 398 Essex 729 708 Exeter 333 310 Hull 346 427 Keele 124 155 Kent 535 456 Lancaster 502 490 Leeds 1460 1396 Leicester 157 218 Liverpool 582 518 London Graduate School of Business Studies 55 66 London University 7588 7331 Loughborough 626 564 Manchester Business School 34 34 Manchester 1354 1253 University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology 1221 1136 Newcastle 927 939 Nottingham 493 522 Oxford 1449 1261 Reading 779 743 Salford 666 685 Sheffield 894 897 Southampton 601 580 Surrey 519 445 Sussex 741 631 Warwick 358 346 York 183 168