HC Deb 20 January 1987 vol 108 cc508-10W
Mr. Freud

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what was the number of school-leavers entering full-time degree courses at university in 1986 from each education authority; and if he will express these figures as a proportion of the number of students in secondary education in each authority.

Mr. Dunn

Data on leavers from maintained schools are:

Leavers from maintained schools intending to pursue a full-time degree course at university Average of academic years 1982–83, 1983–84 and 1984–85
Number (000) As percentage of total leavers
Barking 0.05 2.0
Barnet 0.28 7.9
Bexley 0.15 4.1
Brent 0.08 2.5
Bromley 0.24 6.1
Croydon 0.21 4.6
Ealing 0.12 3.3
Enfield 0.19 4.7
Haringey 0.08 3.4
Harrow 0.18 7.3
Havering 0.16 4.0
Hillingdon 0.10 3.1
Hounslow 0.12 4.2
Kingston-upon-Thames 0.11 6.1
Merton 0.10 4.9
Newham 0.04 1.2
Redbridge 0.09 3.4
Richmond-upon-Thames
Sutton 0.16 6.7
Waltham Forest 0.05 1.8
ILEA 0.62 2.3
Birmingham 0.49 2.9
Coventry 0.18 3.4
Dudley 0.13 2.6
Sandwell 0.08 1.5
Solihull 0.20 5.2
Walsall 0.20 4.0
Wolverhampton 0.12 2.7
Knowsley 0.03 0.9
Liverpool 0.27 3.6
St. Helens 0.14 4.4
Sefton 0.28 5.9
Wirral 0.25 5.1

Number(000) As percentage of total leavers
Bolton 0.23 5.4
Bury 0.09 3.4
Manchester 0.27 3.5
Oldham 0.09 2.6
Rochdale 0.10 3.3
Salford 0.12 3.1
Stockport 0.28 6.2
Tameside 0.09 2.2
Trafford 0.15 4.9
Wigan 0.19 3.1
Barnsley 0.07 1.8
Doncaster 0.16 3.4
Rotherham 0.16 3.5
Sheffield 0.38 4.5
Bradford 0.23 2.9
Calderdale 0.13 4.0
Kirklees 0.25 4.0
Leeds 0.49 4.6
Wakefield 0.09 1.8
Gateshead 0.10 3.0
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 0.12 3.2
North Tyneside 0.11 3.8
South Tyneside 0.08 2.9
Sunderland 0.12 2.4
Avon 0.49 3.8
Bedfordshire 0.32 4.1
Berkshire 0.54 5.3
Buckinghamshire 0.66 7.7
Cambridgeshire 0.33 4.0
Cheshire 0.74 4.9
Cleveland 0.53 5.2
Cornwall 0.26 3.8
Cumbria 0.31 4.3
Derbyshire 0.56 3.8
Devon 0.41 3.1
Dorset 0.41 4.9
Durham 0.38 3.9
East Sussex 0.43 5.4
Essex 1.10 4.7
Gloucestershire 0.36 4.8
Hampshire 0.85 3.7
Hereford and Worcester 0.43 4.6
Hertfordshire 0.95 6.1
Humberside 0.55 3.9
Isle of Wight 0.08 4.5
Kent 1.23 5.3

£ million at 1986–87 prices
1981–82 outturn 1982–83 outturn 1983–84 outturn 1984–85 outturn 1985–86 outturn 1 1986–87 estimated outturn2 1987–88 plans 1988–89 plans 1989–90 plans
Schools 9,189 9,100 9,123 9,046 8,920 9,923 9,962 10,151 10,139
Higher and further education 4,571 4,707 4,744 4,739 4,523 4,592 4,476 4,470 4,466
Miscellaneous educational services, research and administration 772 789 839 852 867 924 934 922 922
Research Councils and related bodies 575 573 589 596 604 615 632 624 615
Total Department of Education and Science 15,105 15,168 15,294 15,232 14,913 15,954 16,004 16,157 16,130
Central government—Voted in Estimates
Schools
Assisted places scheme 4 10 17 24 30 37 48 51 53
City technology colleges 4 18 30
Music and ballet schools 7 4 3 3 3 3 3 4 4
Building grants to voluntary and special schools 56 46 43 49 56 50 52 51 50
Higher and further education (including teacher training)4
Universities
Capital 153 144 135 132 138 154 148 143 140

Number(000) As percentage of total leavers
Lancashire 0.71 3.3
Leicestershire 0.69 5.1
Lincolnshire 0.38 4.6
Norfolk 0.31 3.0
North Yorkshire 0.70 7.0
Northamptonshire 0.27 3.1
Northumberland 0.16 3.6
Nottinghamshire 0.58 3.5
Oxfordshire 0.44 5.5
Shropshire 0.23 3.6
Somerset 0.15 2.5
Staffordshire 0.54 3.4
Suffolk 0.26 3.0
Surrey 0.90 6.8
Warwickshire 0.34 4.6
West Sussex 0.44 4.7
Wiltshire 0.33 4.2
ENGLAND 28.94 4.1

Source: School Leavers Survey.

Data subject to sampling error and has been averaged over three years to reduce its significance.

Note: LEA's vary in the extent to which post 16 education provision is centred in schools, tertiary or other FE colleges. In this context Richmond, for example, with no school sixth forms, has no leavers intending to pursue university degree courses.

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