§ 18. Dr. Brayasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will estimate the effect of the cuts in university grants on the number of places for engineering students relative to the entry in October 1981.
§ Mr. WaldegraveInformation about the number of engineering students admitted to university this autumn is not yet available. The University Grants Committee's allocation of grant for 1981–82 and their provisional indications for later years were based on the assumption of 33,100 home and European Community students in engineering and technology in 1983–84 compared with 32,500 in 1979–80—the latest figure available at that time. The number of such students rose to 33,600 in 1980–81, an increase beyond that postulated by the UGC.