§ 29. Miss Joan Lestorasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science what information is available to him as to the number of women accepted into universities in each of the past five years.
§ Mr. WaldegraveFigures published by the Universities Central Council on admissions for the five years 1977 to 1981 inclusive, show the numbers of women candidates accepted for entry to first degree courses at those universities which participate in the scheme as 28,200, 30,000, 32,000, 33,700 and 32,400, respectively.
Acceptance figures are not directly comparable with the new entrant figures published annually in Volume 6 of "Statistics of Education", because not all candidates apply through the Council. Three of the Scottish universities do not participate fully in the scheme and postgraduate students are not covered.