§ Mr. McNamaraasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will publish in the Official Report statistics of mature students studying at universities, polytechnics and colleges of further education over the past five years, indicating the disciplines which they are reading.
§ Mr. Gerry FowlerFollowing are the number of students who at 31st December each year were aged 25 or over on full-time or sandwich courses: 613W An analysis by discipline of all these students could be provided only at a disproportionate cost. The following table gives the only analysis available for university mature undergraduates and relates to those aged 26 or over at 31st December 1974:
614W
TABLE 2 United Kingdom Universities in 1974–75 (provisional) Subject Age 26 or over at 31st December 1974 Education 234 Combinations of Education with other subjects 253 Total Education 487 Medicine 857 Dentistry 230 Pharmacy 43 Pharmacology 6 Other studies allied to Medicine and Health 177 Total Medicine, Dentistry and Health 1,313 Aeronautical Engineering 22 Chemical Engineering 44 Civil Engineering 292 Electrical Engineering 334 Mechanical Engineering. 273 Production Engineering. 40 Mining 26 Metallurgy 18 Other general and combined Engineering subjects 79 Surveying 5 Other Technologies 53 Combinations of Group 3 with Group 4–9 45 Total Engineering & Technology 1,231 Agriculture 45 Agriculture Biology 9 Agricultural Chemistry 1 Forestry 18 Veterinary studies 44 Total Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Science 117 Biology 76 Botany 30 Zoology 38 Physiology and/or Anatomy 18 Biochemistry 50 Other, general and combined Biological Sciences 54 Mathematics 209 Mathematics with Physics 12 Physics 71 Chemistry 74 Geology 54 615W
Subject Age 26 or over at 31st December 1974 Environmental Sciences (other than Geology) 41 Other, general and combined Physical Sciences 31 Combinations of Biological and Physical Sciences 122 Combinations of Group 5 with Group 6–9 112 Total Science 992 Business Management studies 75 Economics 291 Geography 83 Accountancy 17 Government and Public Administration 228 Law 453 Psychology 340 Sociology 514 Social Anthropology 64 Combinations within Group 6 876 Combinations of Group 6 with Groups 7–9 576 Total Social, Administrative and Business 3,517 Architecture 123 Town and Country Planning 15 Home, Hotel and Institutional Management 7 Other professional and vocational subjects 98 Total Architecture and other professional subjects 243 English 476 Welsh and other Celtic languages and Studies 8 French language and studies 101 French/German language and studies 19 German language and studies 80 Hispanic language and studies 43 Other and combined West European language and studies 86 Russian language and studies 36 Other Slavonic and East European language and studies 10 Chinese language and studies 20 Oriental, Asian and African language and studies 64 Classical studies 20 Other, general and combined language and studies. 82 Combinations of Group 8 with Group 9 260 Total language, literature and area studies 1,305 History 300 Archaeology 63 Philosophy 168 Theology 458 Art and Design 71 Drama 22
Subject Age 26 or over at 31st December 1974 Music 36 Arts general and combined other Arts subjects 513 Total Arts other than languages 1,631 All students including subjects not known 10,837 Corresponding information is not available for students in further education establishments.