§ Mr. Allan Robertsasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list in the Official Report the total number of students attending each university in the United Kingdom broken down into full-time, sandwich, part-time day and evening-only modes of attendance.
§ Dr. BoysonThe universities in Northern Ireland are the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. The available information for each university in Great Britain is shown in the attached table.
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University or College Full-time 1977–78 Sandwich Part-time 1978–79†Full-time and Sandwich Hull … … … … … … 4,919 — 346 5,148 Keele … … … … … … 2,500 — 423 2,805 Kent … … … … … … 3,728 — 179 3,899 Lancaster … … … … … … 4,385 47 287 4,612 Leeds … … … … … … 10,026 — 740 10,114 Leicester … … … … … … 4,061 — 654 4,226 Liverpool … … … … … … 7,329 — 546 7,555 London Graduate School of Business Studies … 215 1 12 217 London University … … … … 37,829 — 8,608 39,384 Loughborough … … … … … 3,221 1,854 377 5,230 Manchester Business School … … … 149 — 7 146 Manchester … … … … … 10,710 — 866 10,973 University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology … … … … 3,758 — 132 3,837 Newcastle … … … … … … 7,280 — 447 7,463 Nottingham … … … … … 6,366 1 604 6,528 Oxford … … … … … … 12,162 — 1,154 12,433 Reading … … … … … … 5,461 162 338 5,957 Salford … … … … … … 3,182 975 184 4,377 Sheffield … … … … … … 7,553 — 312 7,645 Southampton … … … … … 5,966 — 275 6,077 Surrey … … … … … … 1,547 1,609 282 3,368 Sussex … … … … … … 4,336 — 164 4,336 Warwick … … … … … … 4,530 — 303 4,885 York … … … … … … 3,042 — 125 3,174 University of Wales … … … … 18,079 666 947 19,553 Aberdeen … … … … … … 5,249 — 120 5,489 Dundee … … … … … … 2,850 — 187 2,881 Edinburgh … … … … … … 9,713 — 934 9,793 Glasgow … … … … … … 9,486 — 1,148 9,417 Heriot-Watt … … … … … 2,983 — 196 2,790 St. Andrews … … … … … 3,198 — 215 3,253 Stirling … … … … … … 2,448 — 146 2,715 Strathclyde … … … … … … 6,344 — 600 2,413 Total Great Britain … … … … 266,479 14,046 27,287 289,184 Open University (calendar year 1978) … … 87 — 66,044‡ .. *Mainly students on long-term courses leading to degrees; excludes those on short courses, e.g. most post-experience and adult education. † Provisional. ‡ In the current year there are about 70,000 students at the Open University.
§ Mr. Allan Robertsasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list in the Official Report the total expenditure of each university in the United Kingdom in 1978–79.
§ Mr. Mark CarlisleThis information is collected only by academic years and is therefore not yet available for 1978–79. Provisional figures of expenditure by universities in Great Britain for the academic year 1977–78 are provided below.
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ACADEMIC YEAR 1977–78 PROVISIONAL OUTTURN University or College £ Aston 13,057,353 Bath 8,406,189 Birmingham 27,952,672 Bradford 12,477,047 Bristol 21,069,036 Brunel 7,949,066 Cambridge 32,479,318 City 8,700,734 Durham 10,406,093 483W
East Anglia 8,848,909 Essex 6,322,571 Exeter 9,402,952 Hull 9,920,126 Keele 6,230,418 Kent 7,610,121 Lancaster 9,269,168 Leeds 26,725,004 Leicester 10,709,051 Liverpool 23,335,948 London Graduate School of Business Studies 1,824,117 London 188,492,661 Loughborough 11,925,719 Manchester Business School 1,358,049 Manchester 35,756,388 University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology 13,267,807 Newcastle 21,862,108 Nottingham 18,780,108 Oxford 35,717,667 Reading 14,472,768 Salford 11,859,054 Sheffield 21,710,179 Southampton 18,496,259 Surrey 9,205,295 Sussex 12,397,360
University or College—contd. £ Warwick 10,826,686 York 7,671,317 University of Wales 51,345,316 Aberdeen 17,850,864 Dundee 10,339,306 Edinburgh 33,125,645 Glasgow 28,957,835 Heriot-Watt 7,175,538 St. Andrews 7,728,106 Stirling 5,828,815 Strathclyde 16,478,637 Total Great Britain 877,325,482 The universities in Northern Ireland are the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.