HC Deb 12 May 1969 vol 783 c176W
Mr. Bryan

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what percentage of students from the East Riding of Yorkshire, the Yorkshire and Humberside Region as a whole and from England as a whole, respectively, in the last year for which figures are available, entered colleges of education to train as teachers.

Mrs. Shirley Williams

Of the new awards and grants given to students by local education authorities in 1967 as detailed in Statistics of Education 1967, Volume 5, table 28, the proportions given to entrants to colleges of education by the East Riding of Yorkshire, the Yorkshire and Humberside Region authorities and those in England as a whole were 29.8, 32.2 and 25.8 per cent., respectively. Figures are not available of the total numbers of entrants to higher and further education according to their home areas.