§ 53. Mr. Hector Hughesasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Education if his attention has been drawn to the case of the Oxford student oarsman who was drowned in the Thames on 8th February because he could not
Local education authority awards per 1,000 of the population aged 12 to 16 at the 1951 Census taken up at universities at the beginning of the academic years 1954–55, 1955–56 and 1956–57. Local education authorities which gave fewest awards per 1,000 over the three years Local education authorities which gave most awards per 1,000 over the three years Local education authority Number of awards per 1,000 Local education authority Number of awards per 1,000 West Ham … 6.4 Cardiganshire … … 59.8 Worcestershire … 10.5 Breconshire … … 52.6 Wiltshire … 11.8 Carmarthenshire … … 49.7 Walsall … 12.0 Caernarvonshire … … 45.3 Liverpool … 12.4 Radnorshire … … 44.8 Suffolk, West … 12.7 Merionethshire … … 44.3 Dudley … 12.8 Southport … … 41.5 Dorset … 13.1 Glamorgan … … 40.2 Norwich … 13.2 Swansea … … 39.2 Salford … 13.2 Pembrokeshire … … 38.3 Yorkshire, North Riding … 13.3 Newport … … 37.6 South Shields … 13.9 Cheshire … … 36.1