HC Deb 19 January 1987 vol 108 c370W
Mr. Kirkwood

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list in the Official Report all those universities which provide undergraduate or postgraduate courses in departments of developments studies; what changes have occurred to student numbers in those departments since the beginning of the academic year in 1979 to the present academic year; and what information he has on the changes which have occurred in the percentage of the total cash available to each university going to these departments over the same period.

Mr. Kenneth Baker

In 1979 Birmingham, East Anglia and Kent universities ran undergraduate courses intitled development studies and in 1986 East Anglia, Kent and Swansea ran such courses. These were not all run by departments of development studies. They covered a variety of options mainly in the economics, geography, political and sociology fields which were also included as options in courses at other universities. In 1986, 32 universities offered postgraduate taught or research courses in development studies which also covered a wide range of options. Information on the numbers of students studying the different options is not readily available centrally. Information is not available centrally on expenditure by individual departments (the classification of which varies between universities).