§ Mr. Flanneryasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will now list the education grant-related expenditure assessments for each local education authority for 1984–85.
§ Sir Keith JosephThe total GRE assessment for each local authority covering all services including education was published in the rate support grant report for 1984–85. The education component of that total for each authority will be published in March.
560Wsize of which forms the basis for the calculation of participation—for example, for the United Kingdom the size of the typical year group is the total number of 18 and 19-year-olds divided by two.
Participation in (i) Higher Education and (ii) University Education only, 1976 Participation rates Age range Higher Education University Belgium* 18–20 33.9 13.1 Denmark† 19–21 36.8 16.6 France‡ 18–20 27.7 18.8 Germany FR of 19–21 19.2 13.6 Greece n/a n/a n/a Ireland n/a n/a n/a Italy║ 19–21 30.6 29.5 Luxembourg n/a n/a n/a Netherlands 18–20 25.5 8.7 United Kingdomt†¶ 18–19 31.4 9.1 * 1974. † Full-time and part-time. ‡Excluding new entrants to "Grandes Ecoles" and "Instituts d' Université". ║ First year students. ¶ 1981, excludes post graduates and others known to have a higher education qualification, excludes overseas students. Source: Tables 54 and 56 "Educational Statistics in OECD. Countries". "Education Statistics for the United Kingdom" 1983 edition