§ Mrs. Whiteasked the Minister of Education how many places are proposed during the next five years for students taking Diploma of Technology courses in colleges of advanced technology, and in other establishments, respectively.
§ Sir E. BoyleThe plans for the expansion of advanced courses in colleges of advanced technology and other colleges are made in terms not of particular courses but of numbers of students. The number of advanced full-time and sandwich students in the colleges of advanced technology is expected to increase from about 10,500 to 15,000 by the mid-1960s and to 21,000 thereafter. In other colleges there are about 28,000 such students and this figure is also expected to increase considerably. Students taking Diploma in Technology courses account for about one-fifth of the present numbers, in the colleges taken as a whole, though in the colleges of advanced technology alone they account for more than half. No estimate can be made of the proportion of students who will be studying for the Diploma in Technology during the next five years, but it is estimated that places will be available in the colleges of advanced technology in the coming session for some 7,400 Dip. Tech. students, and in the other colleges for some 2,500.