HC Deb 19 May 1992 vol 208 cc80-2W
Mr. Rowlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list for each technical and further education college in Wales the numbers of students obtaining an ordinary national diploma, a higher national diploma or a B.Tech. qualification during the last academic year.

Sir Wyn Roberts

Figures for students obtaining an ordinary national diploma are not collected centrally. The numbers of students obtaining a B.Tech higher national diploma during the 1990–91 academic year are listed in the table:

Number of B.Tech Higher National Diploma passes1
College Number
North East Wales Institute 238
Llandrillo Technical College 21
Carmarthen College of Technology and Art 50
Welsh Agricultural College 8
Gwent College of Higher Education 121
The Polytechnic of Wales 308
Cardiff Institute of Higher Education 255
Swansea Institute of Higher Education 244
Total for Wales 1,245
1 Includes distinctions.

Mr. Rowlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the further education and technical colleges which will be funded by the new funding council, indicating(a) the number of students in each college enrolled in September 1991 and (b) the capital and current expenditure of each college during the last financial year.

Sir Wyn Roberts

Information on capital and current expenditure for further education is not held centrally. Reliable data for student enrolments are not yet available for 1991. The total number of students enrolled at November 1990 in further education and technical colleges are listed in the table. The figures include both further education and higher education enrolments. The Further Education Funding Council for Wales will determine only the number of further education enrolments to be funded from the 1 April 1993.

Number of enrolments at November 1990
College Number
Clwyd
North East Wales Institute 8,923
Llandrillo Technical College 5,633
Welsh College of Horticulture 288
Llysfasi College of Agriculture 367
Dyfed
Carmarthen College of Technology and Art 4,214
Pembrokeshire College of Further Education 2,411
Ceredigion College of Further Education 1,740
Welsh Agricultural College 207
Gwent
Newport College of Further Education 4,395
Crosskeys College 3,740
Pontypool College 3,157
Ebbw Vale College of Further Education 1,613
Usk Agricultural College 395
Gwynedd
Gwynedd Technical College 3,247
Coleg Pencraig 1,018
Coleg Meirionydd 996
Coleg Glynllifon 109
Mid Glamorgan
Merthyr Tydfil College 2,434
Aberdare College 1,515
Bridgend College 4,331
Rhondda College 1,782
Ystrad Mynach College 2,588
Pontypridd College 4,003
Pencoed College 593
Powys
Coleg Powys 3,889

College Number
South Glamorgan
Coleg Glan Hafren 4,902
Barry College of Further Education 2,875
West Glamorgan
Swansea College 6,249
Gorseinon College 2,394
Neath College 4,451
Afan College 2,339
TOTAL 86,798

Mr. Rowlands

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list for each technical and further education college in Wales how many students obtained A levels with grades A to C during the last academic year.

Sir Wyn Roberts

The information is not held centrally.