HC Deb 20 December 1966 vol 738 cc288-9W
84. Dame Joan Vickers

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many students, male and female, from the colonies are at present studying in the United Kingdom; and from which countries they come.

Mr. Goronwy Roberts

The table below shows the number of full-time and sandwich students, in autumn 1965, from the territories for which the Colonial Secretary is at present responsible:

cluding in particular schools, the facilities available to librarian pupils at the Welsh College of Librarianship at Aberystwyth.

Mr. Goronwy Roberts

It is primarily the responsibility of the College authorities and the local education authority to make known the facilities offered by the College. This they are doing in a number of ways—the College is listed in careers leaflets and appears in the students' handbook published by the Library Association, its governing body represents a wide range of educational interests, members of its staff visit and give talks in other educational establishments, especially schools in Wales, which are also invited to visit the College in Groups. The College is already receiving numerous applications from men and women students from all parts of the country. It is the only school of librarianship training librarians for work in bilingual areas. Currently, there are over 200 students in the College undertaking the non-graduate and post-graduate courses. With the approval of the Library Advisory Council for Wales the College has plans to expand student numbers to over 300; and an allocation has been made from the 1967–68 Further Education Building Programme to provide the first instalment of a new permanent development on a site adjacent to the present premises.

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