§ 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 enrolled at each of them for the academic years 1965–66 and 1966–67.
§ Mr. Goronwy RobertsThe following information is supplied by the University Grants Committee: information about the numbers of graduates in 1965–66 is not yet available: and no figures for 1966–67 are yet available. Figures relating to undergraduate entries and total student numbers in agriculture and forestry for each institution in 1965–66 are as follows:
The University Grants Committee have begun a new system of classification of students, starting with 1965–66, by the main subject of study instead of by faculty as previously. In some of the universities listed above, the main subjects in the first year of the course are physical/biological sciences, and thus students who enter these universities with 118W the eventual aim of studying agriculture or forestry will not be so listed in their first year. This change of classification explains the differences between the 1965–66 figures and figures to 1964–65 given in reply to the hon. Member on 5th December.—[Vol. 737, c. 222–4.]
AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY University or College Entrants at under-graduate level Total Student numbers Cambridge 15 78 Leeds 55 182 London (Wye College) 75 310 Newcastle 57 218 Nottingham 93 309 Oxford 13 89 Reading 118 397 Aberystwyth 42 173 Bangor 65 239 Aberdeen 5 88 Edinburgh 52 224 Glasgow — 56 Total Great Britain 590 2,363 Queen's University Belfast 24 108 Total United Kingdom 614 2,471