HC Deb 28 April 1987 vol 115 c98W
Mr. Robert Banks

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list the establishments in higher education providing graduate and post graduate courses in subjects relating to the tourism industry and the numbers of students under tuition.

Mr. Walden

The Educational Counselling and Credit Transfer Information Service (ECCTIS) lists the following universities in Great Britain and polytechnics and colleges in England which run first degree or postgraduate courses in tourism, hotel management, hotel and catering management or institutional management:

First Degree

  • Strathclyde University
  • Surrey University
  • University College of Wales (Cardiff)
  • Huddersfield Polytechnic
  • Manchester Polytechnic
  • Middlesex Polytechnic
  • Newcastle Polytechnic
  • Polytechnic of North London
  • Portsmouth Polytechnic
  • Dorset Institute of Higher Education
  • Ealing College of Higher Education
  • New College, Durham
  • Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education

Postgraduate

  • Birmingham University
  • Loughborough University
  • Strathclyde University
  • Surrey University
  • Leeds Polytechnic
  • Manchester Polytechnic
  • Blackpool and Fylde College of Further and Higher Education
  • Dorset Institute of Higher Education
  • South Devon College of Arts and Technology

There were 915 enrolments on first degree and 64 enrolments on postgraduate courses in these subjects in polytechnics and colleges in England in November 1985. Similar data on enrolments for the university sector are not readily available.