§ Mr. Michael Forsythasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science, for universities in Great Britain, how many first-year students discontinued their studies at the end of the first year due to examination failure; and what percentage of that year's students they represented in each of the last five years.
§ Mr. BrookeThe information is no available in the form requested, but an analysis conducted on the basis of282W 1979 figures suggested that about 4 per cent. of university students left their courses in that year without qualifying because of examination failure. About half of those who left were in their first year of study.