HC Deb 12 June 1986 vol 99 cc260-1W
Mr. Dewar

asked the Secretary of State for Scotland what percentage of students obtaining three or more passes at Scottish certificate of education higher grade in each year since 1979 have obtained places at universities.

Mr. Rifkind

Information is not available in the precise form requested. Such information is normally presented as a qualified participation index (QPI), showing the number of Scottish entrants to universities in the United Kingdom aged under 21 in any particular year expressed as a percentage of those leaving school or further education in the preceding year with three or more SCE higher grade passes. The available data are as follows:

QPI
1979–80 48.4
1980–81 48.7
1981–82 45.6
1982–83 41.0
1983–84 38.3
1984–85 38.4

Beds: Patients
Health board 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 *1985
Argyll and Clyde 0.8:1 0.7:1 0.7:1 0.9:1 0.6:1 0.6:1 0.6:1
Ayrshire and Arran 0.6:1 0.6:1 0.7:1 0.6:1 0.6:1 0.6:1 0.6:1
Borders 1.8:1 1.4:1 2.3:1 2.4:1 2.3:1 3.7:1 2.8:1
Dumfries and Galloway 0.7:1 0.8:1 0.8:1 0.5:1 0.5:1 0.6:1 0.6:1
Fife 0.6:1 0.7:1 0.7:1 0.4:1 0.5:1 0.5:1 0.5:1
Forth Valley 0.8:1 0.9:1 1.0:1 0.9:1 1.0:1 1.2:1 1.3:1
Grampian 0.7:1 0.8:1 0.8:1 0.5:1 0.5:1 0.6:1 0.16:1
Greater Glasgow 0.9:1 0.9:1 0.9:1 0.7:1 0.7:1 0.7:1 0.8:1
Highland 2.1:1 1.8:1 2.0:1 1.4:1 1.2:1 1.3:1 0.9:1
Lanarkshire 1.0:1 1.1:1 1.1:1 0.6:1 0.7:1 0.7:1 0.8:1
Lothian 0.6:1 0.8:1 0.9:1 0.5:1 0.6:1 0.6:1 0.6:1
Orkney 3.1:1 2.6:1 2.8:1 3.1:1 2.3:1 2.4:1 2.3:1
Shetland 0.6:1 0.8:1 0.8:1 0.9:1 1.3:1 1.2:1 0.9:1
Tayside 1.1:1 1.0.1 1.0:1 1.0:1 0.7:1 0.7:1 0.8:1
Western Isles 1.3:1 1.1:1 0.6:1 1.3:1 2.0:1 2.8:1 2.7:1
Scotland 0.8:1 0.9:1 0.9:1 0.7:1 0.6:1 0.7:1 0.7:1
* Provisional.