§ Mr. Peter Griffithsasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many and what percentage of co-operative awards in science or engineering allocated to universities in 1986 remained vacant by 30 June 1987.
Mr. JacksonIn 1986, 1,035 co-operative awards in science and engineering projects were approved at universities, and of these 324 (31.3 per cent.) had not been taken up by 30 June 1987. Awards approved in 1986 will be available for take up until March 1988.
§ Mr. Peter Griffithsasked the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many co-operative awards in science or engineering there were from polytechnics in 1986; and what proportion of these were rejected.
Mr. JacksonIn 1986 there were 102 proposals for cooperative awards in science and engineering from polytechnics, and of these 55 per cent were rejected.