Further and Higher Education

HC Deb 12 November 1987 vol 122 cc176-7W

Mrs. Clwyd

To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will give for each Welsh education authority(a) the total number and (b) the percentage of pupils who have obtained places in higher or further education for each year since 1979.

	Clwyd	Dyfed	Gwent	Gwynedd	Mid Glamorgan	Powys	South Glamorgan	West Glamorgan
1979–80
numbers1	1.5	1.4	1.5	1.3	1.5	0.7	1.2	1.1
per cent.2	25	28	20	37	17	42	19	20
1980–81
numbers1	1.5	1.7	1.6	1.3	1.7	0.8	1.3	1.2
per cent.2	28	35	22	39	21	46	22	22
1981–82
numbers1	1.7	1.7	2.3	1.2	1.8	0.8	1.1	1.8
per cent.2	28	35	30	36	21	46	20	29
1982–83
numbers1	1.8	1.8	1.9	1.5	2.0	0.8	1.4	1.9
per cent.2	29	36	27	41	24	46	23	33
1983–84
numbers1	1.4	1.6	1.9	1.3	2.2	0.7	1.4	1.7
per cent.2	25	33	27	37	26	43	24	31
1984–85
numbers1	1.4	1.7	2.1	1.4	1.8	0.9	1.5	2.2
per cent.2	23	34	31	39	22	51	26	37
1985–86
numbers1	1.4	1.8	1.9	1.4	1.8	0.7	1.6	2.1
per cent.2	23	36	29	40	22	42	28	39
1 Numbers of maintained school leavers, expressed in thousands who intended entry into further education.
2 School leavers intending to enter full-time further or higher education as a percentage of all school leavers.