§ Mr. Hooleyasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list in the OFFICIAL REPORT the total number of full-time registered students in universities in the United Kingdom at 31st October, 1969, the total number in colleges of education at the same date, the total number of full-time students in other institutions of higher education at the same date, and the corresponding figures for October, 1968, and October, 1964.
§ Mr. FowlerThe information for the United Kingdom is given in the following table:
Number of full-time and sandwich students Oct. 1964 Oct. 1968 Oct. 1969✶ Universities 158,000† 218,200 226,200 Colleges of Education 72,000 122,300 128,500 Advanced Further Education 44,000 83,700 93,000 Total 274,000 424,200 447,700 ✶ The October 1969 figures are provisional. … This figure, which includes students at the then colleges of advanced technology and the Heriot Watt College and Scottish College of Commerce, contains an estimated element.