§ Dr. Edmund Marshallasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science whether he will list, for each of the past three years, and for each university in England (a) the number of places available for first-year undergraduate students and (b) the number of applicants for those places.
§ Mr. Waldegrave:The number of places available at universities for first-year undergraduate students is not readily available. It is not the policy of the Universities Central Council on Admissions to disclose the numbers of applicants to each university. However the council has provided the following figures for English universities as a whole:
1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 Candidates naming an English university as a first choice 138,907 140,730 140,157 Candidates accepted by English universities 66,988 68,349 64,992 The figures of candidates accepted through UCCA differ slightly from figures of all new entrants to universities published by the UGC. Statistics of undergraduate new entrants to individual universities in England for 1979–80 and 1980–81 were published in vol. 6 of 'Statistics of Education, 1979' and vol. 1 of 'University Statistics, 1980' copies of which are available in the Library. The corresponding 1981–82 figures which have not yet been published are:
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Number of new entrant full-title and sandwich undergraduates at universities in England 1981–82 University Number Aston 1,149 Bath 861 Birmingham 2,436 Bradford 1,175 Bristol 1,950 Brunel 644 Cambridge 3,259 City 718 Durham 1,374 East Anglia 1,307 Essex 1,057 Exeter 1,446 Hull 1,715 Keele 843 Kent 1,474 Lancaster 1,313 Leeds 3,036 Leicester 1,331 Liverpool 2,169 London University 10,476 Loughborough 1,471 Manchester 3,227 University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology 1,374
University Number Newcastle 2,154 Nottingham 1,982 Oxford 3,125 Reading 1,581 Salford 1,234 Sheffield 2,055 Southampton 1,762 Surrey 802 Sussex 1,301 Warwick 1,782 York 1,014