HC Deb 23 July 1987 vol 120 cc319-20W
Mr. Fatchett

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list those local education authorities where tertiary education has been approved by his Department under sections 12 to 15 of the Education Act 1980; and what is the number of students involved.

Mr. Dunn

The table shows the local education authorities whose proposals under sections 12 to 15 of the Education Act 1980 involving the establishment of tertiary colleges for all or part of the authority's area have been approved by my right hon. Friend or his predecessors, the colleges involved, and the number of FTE students on roll at November 1986.

Established at September
Local education authority College Number on roll1
1982
Dudley Halesowen 1,642
1983
Hampshire Alton 845
Lancashire Runshaw 1,659
1984
Durham Peterlee 857
Essex Harlow 1,840
Hampshire Fareham 1,768
Hampshire Brockenhurst 1,031
Knowsley Huyton/Prescot 1,158
Lancashire Blackburn 3,300
Lancashire Skelmersdale 869
North Yorkshire Selby 750
Wolvehampton Bilston 2,248

Leavers from Maintained Schools
Numbers and percentage achieving 5 or more Higher grade (1) passes at GCE O level or CSE and 2 or more A level passes. Data averaged over the academic years 1983–84, 1984–85 and 1985–86
5 or more Higher grade1 passes 2 or more A level passes
(000s) per cent. (000s) per cent.
Barking 0.22 9.8 0.11 4.7
Barnet 1.40 39.9 0.83 23.6
Bexley 0.98 26.9 0.46 12.6
Brent 0.53 18.0 0.31 10.4
Bromley 1.15 30.2 0.58 15.3
Croydon 1.08 24.8 0.49 11.2
Ealing 0.66 19.9 0.33 10.1
Enfield 0.90 24.3 0.498 13.4
Haringey 0.36 17.0 0.16 7.6
Harrow 0.91 39.0 0.52 22.5
Havering 1.02 26.3 0.49 12.6
Hillingdon 0.72 22.8 0.32 10.1
Hounslow 0.60 20.9 0.30 10.3
Kingston-upon-Thames 06.1 35.8 0.27 15.7
Merton 0.54 26.1 0.25 12.2
Newham 0.36 11.7 0.12 3.8
Redbridge 0.69 25.3 0.36 13.2
Richmond-upon-Thames 0.33 24.0
Sutton 0.69 31.3 0.41 18.8
Local education authority College Number on roll1
1985
Dorset Portland and Weymouth 1,568
Gloucestershire Forest of Dean 787
1986
Durham Derwentside 628
Staffordshire Newcastle under Lyme 1,021
Manchester North Manchester 2,575
Manchester South Manchester 2,996
Cambridgeshire Isle College n/a
Opening in 1987
Harrow 3 colleges
Bury 1 college
Kirklees 1 college
Oxfordshire 1 college
Opening in 1989
South Tyneside 1 college
Sunderland 2 colleges
Sheffield 6 colleges
1 FTE at November 1986.