§ Mr. Pardoeasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give details of the following in primary and secondary schools in Cornwall: full-time pupils on registers, full-time teachers, full-time equivalent of part-time teachers, pupils per teacher, and his estimates for those categories in each of the next five years.
§ Mr. ArmstrongAt January 1974, the latest year for which information is available, the details for maintained primary and secondary schools in Cornwall were as follows:
Estimates by my Department for Cornwall for the following five years are available560W
Primary Secondary Primary and Secondary Full-time pupils 38,275* 27,982 66,257* Full-time qualified teachers 1,395 1,523 2,918 Full-time equivalent of part-time teachers 53 53 106 Pupils per teacher† 26.7 17.8 22.1 * Including 1,641 full-time 4-year-old pupils. † Part-time pupils have each been included as 0.5 pupil and the pupil/teacher ratio is expressed in terms of full-time equivalents. the value of postgraduate awards at constant prices over the last 15 years.
§ Mr. PrenticeThe information is given below for postgraduates in courses leading to higher degrees:
only for full-time pupils aged five and over and are as follows:
Primary Secondary Primary and Secondary 1975 37,100 29,000 66,100 1976 37,300 30,200 67,500 1977 37,500 31,200 68,700 1978 37,300 32,000 69,300 1979 36,800 32,500 69,300
§ Mr. Pardoeasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science (1) if he will give details of the number of students in Cornwall aged 15 to 17 years and as a percentage of the 15 to 17 year age group, on full-time, sandwich, part-time day, evening only and evening institute courses, and his estimates for changes in the next five years;
(2) if he will give details of the number of students in Cornwall aged 18–20 years and as a percentage of the 18 to 20 age group, on full-time, sandwich, part-time day, evening only, and evening institute courses, and his estimates for changes in the next five years.
§ Mr. PrenticeThe number of students attending further education establishments located in Cornwall at November 1973 and the percentage these formed of the relevant age group resident in Cornwall are as follows: 561W
Type of course Number of students 15–17 Percentage of 15–17 age group Number of students 18–20 Percentage of 18–20 age group Major Further Education Establishments and Colleges of Education: Full-time … … … … … 938 6.4 959 6.7 Sandwich … … … … … — — 11 0.1 Part-time day … … … … … 729 5.0 1,211 8.5 Evening only … … … … … 414 2.8 406 2.9 Evening Institutes … … … … … 1,021 6.9 323 2.3 Many full-time students, especially in the 18–20 age group, study outside their normal area of residence. My Department does not estimate future further education numbers by individual local education authority area.
§ Mr. Pardoeasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give details of his Department's estimates for changes in the school and student population in Cornwall, and compare
ESTIMATED MAINTAINED PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL POPULATION '000 Primary pupils (aged 5 and over) Secondary pupils Primary and secondary pupils (aged 5 and over) England and Wales Cornwall England and Wales Cornwall England and Wales Cornwall 1974 … 4,875.6 36.6 3,695.7 28.0 8,571.3 64.6 1975 … 4,828.5 37.1 3,809.5 29.0 8,638.0 66.1 1976 … 4,754.0 37.3 3,928.0 30.2 8,682.0 67.5 1977 … 4,676.8 37.5 4,021.4 31.2 8,698.2 68.7 1978 … 4,558.5 37.3 4,080.7 32.0 8,639.2 69.3 1979 … 4,410.7 36.8 4,103.8 32.5 8,514.5 69.3
§ Mr. Pardoeasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will give details of the number of new school places, in primary and secondary schools in Cornwall, brought into use by new construction in each of the last two years, and give estimates of similar categories over the next five years; and if he will compare these figures with the totals for England and Wales.
§ Mr. ArmstrongNew school places provided by major building projects in 1973 and 1974 are as follows:
Details of those provided by minor building projects are not available. The authority has been allocated £2,733,000 for school building starts in 1975–76 and as my right hon. Friend stated in the562W
Cornwall Primary Secondary 1973 760 1,555 1974 1,440 550 England and Wales Primary Secondary 1973 126,306 112,936 1974 154,272 120,111 these figures with similar for England and Wales.
§ Mr. PrenticeThe only forward estimates by my Department of pupil and student numbers in Cornwall that are available are those for maintained primary and secondary pupils aged five and over. Figures for January 1974 and projections for the following five years, together with corresponding figures for England and Wales, as as follows:
House on 6th May—[Vol. 891, c. 1202]—he will try to inform authorities by the end of June of their allocations for 1976–77.
§ Mr. Pardoeasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many school leavers in Cornwall went to universities, colleges of education, polytechnics and other full-time education over the last 10 years; and how this compares with similar figures, per head of school population, for England and Wales.
§ Mr. PrenticeI regret that the precise information asked for is not available, but the number of new awards to students entering universities, establishments of further education and colleges of education, and their ratios to population—both nationally and in each local education authority including Cornwall—have been published annually for each year since 1966 in Volume 5 (Finance & Awards) of "Statistics of Education", copies of which are available in the Library.