HC Deb 03 March 1986 vol 93 cc15-8W
Mr. Sheerman

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many students from (a)

TABLE 1
University Students : Great Britain
1979 1984
University or College Students from the United States All overseas students United States students as a percentage of all students all overseas students as a percentage of all students Students from the United States All overseas students United States students as a percentage of all students All overseas students as a percentage of all students
Aston * 989 * 16.4 * 306 * 7.6
Bath * 324 * 8.8 * 310 * 7.8
Birmingham * 1,260 * 13.0 * 808 * 8.4
Bradford * 703 * 13.1 * 440 * 8.8
Bristol * 287 * 3.9 * 378 * 5.1
Brunel * 329 * 8.7 * 265 * 7.4
Cambridge * 975 * 7.9 * 1,258 * 10.0
City * 583 * 19.1 * 624 * 17.1
Durham * 233 * 4.7 * 235 * 4.5
East Anglia * 398 * 9.4 * 477 * 10.6
Essex * 708 * 23.0 * 719 * 23.2
Exeter * 310 * 5.5 * 319 * 5.6
Hull * 427 * 7.4 * 321 * 6.0
Keele * 155 * 4.8 * 305 * 9.7
Kent * 456 * 11.0 * 779 * 16.9
Lancaster * 1,004 * 20.3 * 339 * 7.2
Leeds * 1,396 * 12.1 * 1,170 * 10.3
Leicester * 218 * 4.2 * 200 * 3.8
Liverpool * 518 * 6.4 * 446 * 5.5
London Graduate School of Business Studies * 66 * 28.1 * 51 * 13.4
London University * 7,331 * 15.1 * 7,173 * 14.7
Loughborough * 564 * 9.7 * 579 * 10.3
Manchester Business School * 34 * 22.4 * 46 * 16.9
Manchester * 1,253 * 10.3 * 993 * 8.3
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology * 1,136 * 27.4 * 954 * 22.6
Newcastle * 939 * 11.4 * 844 * 10.3
Nottingham * 522 * 7.0 * 428 * 5.5
Oxford * 1,261 * 9.3 * 1,346 * 9.8
Reading * 743 * 12.3 * 775 * 12.8
Salford * 685 * 13.7 * 754 * 16.7
Sheffield * 897 * 11.1 * 508 * 6.1
Southampton * 580 * 8.8 * 524 * 7.6
Surrey * 445 * 12.2 * 423 * 11.2
Sussex * 631 * 13.5 * 662 * 14.3
Warwick * 346 * 6.6 * 441 * 7.6
York * 168 * 4.9 * 196 * 5.6
Total England 2,232 28,360 0.9 11.1 2,564 26,396 1.0 10.3

overseas and (b) the United States of America are currently studying in British universities and polytechnics (i) in total and (ii) by institutions; and what were the comparable figures for 1979, expressed in figures and as a percentage of all students.

Mr. Walden

[pursuant to his reply, 26 February 1986, c. 576]: The available information is given in tables 1 and 2. The percentages shown relate to the total numbers of full-time and part-time students. Overseas students are defined as those whose permanent domicile is outside the United Kingdom. In 1984 the numbers of overseas university postgraduate students have been taken as those who paid the overseas rate of fees as the numbers with overseas domicile is not available for each individual university. The numbers of students from the USA at each individual university could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.

1979 1984
University or College Students from the United States All overseas students United States students as a percentage of all students all overseas students as a percentage of all students Students from the United States All overseas students United States students as a percentage of all students All overseas students as a percentage of all students
Aberystwyth U.C. * 206 * 6.5 * 184 * 5.8
Bangor U.C. * 319 * 10.6 * 166 * 5.8
Cardiff U.C. * 829 * 13.8 * 751 * 13.0
St. Davids Lampeter * 11 * 1.5 * 25 * 3.1
Swansea U.C. * 591 * 14.2 * 406 * 9.6
Welsh National School of Medicine * 51 * 6.5 * 62 * 7.4
University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology * 479 * 16.4 * 548 * 19.5
Total Wales 100 2,486 0.5 12.0 39 2,142 0.2 10.5
Total England and Wales 2,332 30,846 0.8 11.2 2,603 28,538 0.9 10.3
Aberdeen * 407 * 7.2 * 401 * 6.9
Dundee * 330 * 10.9 * 239 * 7.2
Edinburgh * 774 * 7.5 * 693 * 6.5
Glasgow * 702 * 6.4 * 924 * 7.5
Heriot-Watt * 397 * 11.6 * 519 * 14.4
St. Andrews * 330 * 9.4 * 343 * 9.5
Stirling * 240 * 8.2 * 241 * 8.3
Strathclyde * 834 * 11.9 * 1,063 * 12.8
Total Scotland 471 4,014 1.0 8.6 584 4,423 1.2 8.7
Total Great Britain 2,803 34,860 0.9 10.8 3,187 32,961 1.0 10.1
* Figures not available.

Table 2 Polytechnic Students: England
1979 1984
US Students Total Overseas per cent. US per cent. Overseas US Students Total Overseas per cent. US per cent. Overseas
Polytechnics
NE London 8 927 0.11 12.92 8 1,360 0.09 16.45
Middlesex 20 1,147 0.26 15.35 18 953 0.20 10.70
Kingston * 383 0.07 6.95 * 170 0.03 2.58
City of Birmingham 5 243 0.05 2.80 0 128 0.00 1.45
Coventry 0 211 0.00 3.58 * 93 0.03 1.40
Wolverhampton 0 283 0.00 4.66 0 112 0.00 1.56
Liverpool 0 384 0.00 5.26 0 287 0.00 2.92
Manchester 16 608 0.13 5.06 * 222 0.00 1.59
Sheffield * 240 0.02 2.56 0 93 0.00 0.82
Huddersfield 0 524 0.00 8.48 0 179 0.00 2.93
Leeds 5 698 0.05 7.35 0 325 0.00 3.57
Newcastle/Tyne * 271 0.02 3.14 0 113 0.00 1.17
Sunderland * 465 0.02 11.12 0 453 0.00 8.56
North London 58 874 0.99 14.94 * 404 0.01 6.01
Southbank 8 648 0.11 9.00 0 302 0.00 3.66
City of London 62 459 0.57 4.28 * 278 0.03 3.63
Central London 9 695 0.11 8.95 * 486 0.04 6.70
Thames * 343 0.05 8.71 * 340 0.02 7.02
Bristol * 235 0.01 2.93 0 119 0.00 1.28
Teesside 10 573 0.29 16.75 0 211 0.00 4.32
Plymouth * 353 0.08 10.00 * 178 0.01 3.53
Brighton 26 759 0.45 13.23 12 253 0.19 4.07
Portsmouth 0 582 0.00 9.42 0 242 0.00 3.37
Hatfield * 352 0.02 7.88 0 167 0.00 3.03
Lancashire 0 103 0.00 2.15 0 75 0.00 1.22
Leicester 0 242 0.00 3.53 * 173 0.04 2.11
Trent 0 189 0.00 2.10 * 144 0.00 1.37
Oxford 0 0 0.00 0.00 12 170 0.22 3.17
North Staffs * 151 0.02 3.08 0 142 0.00 2.31
Total 244 12,942 0.125 6.647 69 8,172 0.031 3.709
* 1–4 Students. Precise numbers are not shown in order to preserve confidentiality for individual students.