§ Mr. Joplingasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the institutions in the United Kingdom which award degrees in agriculture; how many students have begun courses for first degrees; how many have graduated; and how many full-time students have been enrolled at each of them during each of the last five years.
§ Mr. Goronwy RobertsInformation about agriculture and forestry students is shown in the following table:
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First degrees obtained University or College 1960/61 1961/62 1962/63 1963/64 1964/65 Cambridge … 45 36 36 30 25 Leeds … 26 20 24 30 40 London (Wye College) … 63 64 54 67 51 Newcastle … 40 32 60 67 64 Nottingham … 38 52 48 56 55 Oxford … 21 22 12 19 22 Reading … 66 88 67 71 78 Aberystwyth … 32 35 29 36 27 Bangor … 48 45 42 32 33 Aberdeen … 28 19 25 15 21 Edinburgh … 27 30 29 28 25 Glasgow … 13 15 25 9 22 Total Great Britain … 447 458 451 460 463 Queen's University, Belfast … 21 16 18 14 20 Total United Kingdom … 468 474 469 474 483 NOTES:
(a) The figures for Great Britain have been extracted from the University Grants Committee's Returns from Universities and University Colleges in receipt of Exchequer Grant. Those for Queen's University, Belfast, have been provided by the Government of Northern Ireland.
(b) The University Grants Committee's statistics for 1965/66 are still being prepared for publication. They have however been collected on a different basis and do not compare readily with those for earlier years.
(c) Statistics for agriculture and forestry students cannot readily be separated.
(d) Total student numbers include both undergraduates and postgraduates.
(e) The University Grants Committee's statistics do not show the number of graduates, only the number of first degrees obtained.