§ Mr. Willie W. Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the number of professional engineers produced each year in the United Kingdom since 1980, and the comparable figures for the United States of America, France, Germany and Japan, respectively.
§ Mr. BrookeInternational comparisons of numbers of engineers achieving chartered or equivalent status annually are not available. Estimates of the number of higher education engineering qualifications awarded each year in the United Kingdom together with figures for the other countries referred to are given in the following table.
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Rate per relevant age groups¶ Postgraduate level First degree level Below first degree level Ml qualifications below postgraduate level Postgraduate level First degree level Below first degree level All qualifications below postgraduate level thousands thousands thousands thousands per cent. per cent. per cent. per cent. France ‡(1976) 9.8 .. .. .. 1.1 .. .. .. Germany (1979) 0.9 5.4 13.8 19.2 0.1 0.6 1.6 2.2 Japan ║(1979) 7.0 54–68 5–12 5–80 0.5 3.5–4.5 0.–0.8 3.9–5.2 United States of America ║(1980) 20.4 74.7 — 74.7 0.5 1.8 — 1.8 * Excludes professional qualifications obtained in the private sector. † Includes estimated TEC/BEC graduates. ‡ Data refer only to principal degrees and diplomas awarded by universities and schools of engineering. ║ Includes private sector. ¶ The relevant age group consists of the total population in the year of graduation, e.g. average of 21–22 year olds for the United Kingdom. Source: UNESCO Statistical Yearbook.
Education Statistics for the United Kingdom.