HC Deb 21 November 1979 vol 974 cc190-2W
Mr. Butcher

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science, excluding further and higher education, what is the total number of teachers and head teachers employed in the service in the current year.

Dr. Boyson

Information about the number of teachers employed in the current school year will be available shortly. Excluding further and higher education, the number of teachers employed by LEAs in England and Wales in January 1979 was:

Dr. Boyson

The attached table gives the total number of overseas students at each Scottish university for 1977–78, the latest year for which information is available.

The table lists countries for which there was a minimum of 10 students at at least one university.

OVERSEAS STUDENTS IN SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES 1977–78
Country of Domicile Aberdeen Dundee Edinburgh Glasgow Heriot-Watt St. Andrews Strathclyde Stirling Scotland Total
Australia 13 38
Canada 21 54 25 37 158
Ghana 12 12 35
Hong Kong 36 18 27 22 119
India 10 22 53
Kenya 13 11 51
Lesotho 10 12
Malaya 211 220
Malaysia* 50 63 40 121 61 22 361
Mauritius 14 41
Nigeria 15 21 19 16 58 148
Singapore 11 36 132 199
Brazil 12 32
Chile 12 28
West Germany 14 24 18 86
Greece 11 19 19 39 11 50 15 171
Iceland 18 30
Iran 17 15 20 14 17 1 20 113
Iraq 36 15 26 13 66 177
Japan 11 23
Jordan 15 33
Mexico 13 23 39
Norway 15 94 16 143
Pakistan 16 56
Zimbabwe Rhodesia 17 57
Saudi Arabia 14 33
Sudan 10 26 13 15 74
Egypt 13 72
United States of America 51 212 22 11 106 39 450
Venezuela 17 36
Other including not known 195 144 289 173 102 166 225 132 861
Total 399 349 868 566 361 309 889 208 3,949
* Students not allocated separately to Malaya,Sabah or Sarawak.
† The totals for each country include students at universities where there were fewer than 10 students from the country