University Grants

HC Deb 11 July 1978 vol 953 cc520-2W

Mr. John Garrett

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what announcement the University Grants Committee has made to universities about their provisional grants for 1979–80 to 1981–82 and their expansion to a total of 310,000 students in 1981–82.

Mrs. Shirley Williams

The University Grants Committee has indicated to universities that the following provisional sums are likely to be made available to them through recurrent grants combined with estimated fee income for full time students.

				Provisional allocation
University or College	1979–80 £million	1980–81 £million	1981–82 £million	1981–82 full time student numbers
Aston	…	…	…	12.21	12.48	12.94	5,600
Bath	…	…	…	7.71	7.82	8.04	3,800
Birmingham	…	…	…	24.32	24.54	25.13	9,300
Bradford	…	…	…	11.99	12.11	12.42	5,000
Bristol	…	…	…	18.28	18.69	19.39	7,600
Brunel	…	…	…	7.49	7.68	7.98	2,900
Cambridge	…	…	…	25.94	26.03	27.05	11,700
City	…	…	…	8.11	8.34	8.67	3,100
Durham	…	…	…	9.10	9.24	9.51	4,500
East Anglia	…	…	…	9.03	9.33	9.63	4,600
Essex	…	…	…	6.29	6.35	6.51	3,100
Exeter	…	…	…	9.90	10.08	10.41	5,300
Hull	…	…	…	9.98	10.08	10.34	5,400
Keele	…	…	…	6.50	6.52	6.65	2,900
Kent	…	…	…	7.29	7.52	7.75	4,100
Lancaster	…	…	…	9.05	9.27	9.64	5,000
Leeds	…	…	…	26.66	27.37	28.52	10,800
Leicester	…	…	…	10.42	11.05	11.88	5,000
Liverpool	…	…	…	23.35	23.66	24.32	8,800
LGSBS	…	…	…	0.96	1.05	1.16	225
London University	…	…	151.53	153.66	158.10	41,400
Loughborough	…	…	11.09	11.16	11.39	5,500
MBS	…	…	…	0.88	0.95	1.06	220
Manchester	…	…	…	30.21	30.67	31.58	11,700
UMIST	…	…	…	12.45	12.52	12.78	4,200
Newcastle	…	…	…	18.97	19.43	20.18	8,000
Nottingham	…	…	…	16.77	17.61	18.77	7,700
Oxford	…	…	…	27.54	28.04	28.56	12,600
Reading	…	…	…	12.76	12.82	13.06	5,800
Salford	…	…	…	12.11	12.17	12.40	4,800
Sheffield	…	…	…	19.85	20.26	20.69	8,000
Southampton	…	…	15.12	15.19	15.48	6,300
Surrey	…	…	…	9.25	9.30	9.47	3,500
Sussex	…	…	…	9.95	10.07	10.34	4,400
Warwick	…	…	…	10.65	10.65	10.65	5,500
York	…	…	…	6.30	6.40	6.61	3,300
University of Wales	…	…	46.19	46.78	48.09	20,365
Aberdeen	…	…	…	15.16	15.48	16.05	5,800
Dundee	…	…	…	9.70	9.79	10.03	3,400
Edinburgh	…	…	…	26.44	26.79	27.56	10,200
Glasgow	…	…	…	25.73	26.15	26.94	10,400
Heriot-Watt	…	…	…	6.82	6.97	7.24	3,000
St. Andrews	…	…	…	7.45	7.55	7.77	3,500
Stirling	…	…	…	5.82	5.96	6.18	3,200
Strathclyde	…	…	…	14.86	15.21	15.82	6,800
Total	…	…	…	768.18	780.79	804.74	308,310
FT Fees (estimated)	…	174.20	179.30	184.70	—
Provisional grant allocated	…	593.98	601.49	620.04	—
Total provisional grant available	…	635.00	648.00	670.00	—

The allocations to individual universities are of income from recurrent grant and the fees of full-time students; they will be converted to grant by deducting the fee income and adding an allowance for local authority rates when these can be estimated adequately for each university.

The allocations so far made by the University Grants Committee are in respect of about 308,300 students so as to allow for the proposed merger of colleges of education with universities. If these prospective mergers take place, the university system will have 310,000 students; if they do not, the committee will reconsider universities' expansion proposals and allocations with a view to making good any shortfall in total student numbers. The committee has kept in reserve such sums as it considers necessary for either situation and also a small contingency reserve.