HC Deb 09 December 1981 vol 14 c425W
Mr. Whitehead

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what was the total intake of students into(a) engineering faculties and(b) four year integrated sandwich courses in engineering and technology in universities in (i) 1979, (ii) 1980 and (iii) 1981.

Sir Keith Joseph

Information which is readily available is given below.

New entrants to full-time and sandwich engineering and technology courses at Great Britain universities who were charged home fees—this includes most of the entrants from EC countries in 1980–81—in 1979 and 1980 were as follows:

1979–80 1980–81
Undergraduates 10,261 10,683
Postgraduates 1,470 1,577

New entrants to sandwich courses in engineering and technology both home and overseas were:

1979–80 1980–81
Undergraduates 2,488 2,336
Postgraduates 20 10

Information on the subject of university students in 1981–82 will not be available until the autumn of 1982.