§ Mr. Gareth Wardellasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish in the Official Report the number of mature students attending colleges of further and higher education in the United Kingdom together with the projected figures during the next five years.
§ Mr. BrookeProjections of the numbers of entrants to full-time higher education aged 21 and over in Great Britain are given in DES report on education number 100 published yesterday. Those for the next five years are attached. Figures for the United Kingdom cannot readily be provided. The table excludes such students in further education colleges on non-advanced courses, of whom there were 19,600 full-time students aged 25 and over in 1982–83.
Report on Education 100 projections Provisional actual Variant X Variant Y 1983–84 37,000 — — 1984–85 — 37,800 36,900 1985–86 — 38,200 37,100 1986–87 — 38,900 38,300 1987–88 — 39,300 39,600 1988–89 — 40,000 41,200