§ Mr. Ralph Howellasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) what percentage of students at polytechnics drops out after one year or less; and how this compares with the figure 10 years ago;
(2) what percentage of students attending polytechnics completed their courses and qualified in 1963 and 1973.
§ Mr. PrenticeThis information is not available; but rates of wastage are among the information which it is hoped to draw from a new system of statistical returns which is now being introduced.