HC Deb 23 February 1956 vol 549 c61W
Mr. Pitman

asked the Minister of Education if he will publish the names of the 12 teachers' training colleges whose costs, in total, per student per year were the least and those 12 whose costs were the greatest, together with such costs, out of those to which attention was recently drawn in the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General upon the Civil Appropriation Accounts, Class IV, Vote I.

Sir D. Eccles

The information is as follows:

Cost per student excluding loan charges, in the financial year 1953–54, based on actual student numbers at certain residential general colleges maintained by local education authorities.
College Cost per Student
Highest Cost £
Wynyard Hall Training College, Durham 557
Alnwick Training College, Northumberland 465
Sunderland Training College 425
Bath Academy of Art 423
The Training College, Bingley, West Riding of Yorkshire 418
The Training College, Bedford 408
City of Liverpool, C. F. Mott Training College 406
Newland Park Training College, Buckinghamshire 394
Padgate Training College, Lancashire 381
Kesteven Training College 373
Bletchley Park Training College, Buckinghamshire 365
Trent Park Training College, Middlesex 364
Lowest Cost
Matlock Training College for Women, Derbyshire 300
Wrexham Training College, Denbighshire 298
Weymouth Training College, Dorset 293
Nottinghamshire County Training College 291
Brighton Training College 290
North Riding Training College 288
City of Portsmouth Training College 285
Glamorgan Training College 273
Shenstone Training College, Worcestershire 273
Normal College, Bangor, North Wales 249
Monmouthshire Training College 243
Swansea Training College 232