HC Deb 26 January 1988 vol 126 cc134-7W
Ms. Armstrong

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are the latest available figures for numbers of students for every university and polytechnic by(a) full-time and (b) part-time status.

Mr. Jackson

The information is shown in the following tables:

University student number in 1986
Thousands
Universities (Great Britain) Full-time Part-time
Aston 3.6 0.4
Bath 3.7 0.3
Birmingham 9.3 1.0
Bradford 4.4 0.6
Bristol 7.1 0.5
Brunel 2.9 2.1
Cambridge 12.2 1.1
City 3.2 1.0
Durham 5.1 0.4
East Anglia 4.2 0.6
Essex 3.1 0.2

Universities (Great Britain) Full-time Part-time
Exeter 5.0 0.4
Hull 4.8 0.7
Keele 2.8 0.2
Kent 4.2 0.5
Lancaster 4.6 0.4
Leeds 10.3 0.7
Leicester 4.9 0.5
Liverpool 7.7 0.8
London Business School 0.3 0.2
London 40.1 8.4
Loughborough 5.2 0.5
Manchester Business School 0.2 0.1
Manchester 11.3 1.4
Manchester Institute of Science and Technology 4.1 0.3
Newcastle 7.8 0.6
Nottingham 7.3 0.9
Oxford 12.2 1.9
Reading 5.8 0.5
Salford 3.7 1.0
Sheffield 8.2 0.5
Southampton 6.5 0.6
Surrey 3.4 0.7
Sussex 4.5 0.3
Warwick 5.9 0.7
York 3.7 0.2
Aberystwyth University College 3.2 0.3
Bangor University College 2.8 0.3
Cardiff University College 5.7 1.0
St. David's Lampeter 0.7 0.0
Swansea University College 4.5 0.3
University of Wales College of Medicine 0.8 0.1
UWIST 2.9 0.2
Aberdeen 5.6 0.5
Dundee 3.3 0.2
Edinburgh 10.1 0.8
Glasgow 10.5 2.6
Heriot-Watt 3.5 0.5
St. Andrews 3.6 0.1
Stirling 2.9 0.4
Strathclyde 7.6 1.3
TOTAL GREAT BRITAIN 301.3 39.4

Polytechnic students in 1986
Thousands
Full-time Part-time
Polytechnics (England)1 AFE NAFE AFE NAFE
North-East London 5.0 — 2.7 0.0
Middlesex 7.0 0.2 1.7 0.2
Kingston 5.6 0.1 1.4 —
Birmingham 5.0 0.1 4.7 0.6
Lanchester 5.8 0.1 1.3 0.0
Wolverhampton 4.8 0.0 3.0 0.1
Liverpool 7.1 0.1 3.2 0.1
Manchester 9.7 0.3 5.1 0.4

Full-time Part-time
AFE NAFE AFE NAFE
Polytechnics (Eng)(1)
Aged under 21
Men 46.5 0.6 6.5 1.0
Women 36.3 0.8 3.0 0.7
Total 82.8 1.5 9.5 1.7
Aged 21 and over
Men 45.0 0.5 40.1 4.7
Women 31.9 0.7 24.2 5.3
Total 76.8 1.2 64.3 9.9

Full-time Part-time
Polytechnics (England)1 AFE NAFE AFE NAFE
Sheffield 7.9 0.1 3.8 0.3
Huddersfield 4.7 0.1 2.1 0.2
Leeds 5.9 0.1 3.8 1.5
Newcastle 6.9 0.0 3.3 0.3
Sunderland 4.2 0.0 1.6 0.1
North London 4.8 0.0 2.0 0.2
South Bank 5.0 0.3 3.6 0.3
City of London 3.2 0.2 5.0 2.4
Central London 4.3 0.1 3.6 2.0
Thames 4.8 0.0 1.9 0.6
Bristol 5.5 0.1 3.9 0.4
Teesside 3.5 0.1 1.8 0.0
Plymouth 4.7 0.2 0.6 0.1
Brighton 5.7 0.1 1.2 0.8
Portsmouth 6.4 — 0.7 —
Hatfield 4.1 0.0 1.5 0.0
Preston 4.1 0.1 2.3 0.4
Leicester 6.4 0.1 2.0 0.1
Trent 7.9 0.0 3.1 0.1
Oxford 4.5 0.0 1.3 —
North Staffordshire 5.0 0.1 1.8 0.4
Total Polytechnics 159.6 2.6 73.8 11.7
1 AFE (Advanced Further Education) courses are courses of higher education. NAFE (Non-advanced Further Education) courses are lower level courses. Some students may be enrolled on both a full-time and a part-time (evening) course or on more than one part-time course. In the figures shown they are counted once for each course on which they are enrolled.

Figures may not sum due to rounding

Ms. Armstrong

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what are the latest available figures on the number of students by age, over 21 years and under 21 years, and by gender in(a) universities and (b) polytechnics.

Mr. Jackson

The information is as follows:

Student numbers in 1986
thousands
Full-time Part-time
Universities (GB)
Aged under 21
Men 97.5 0.5
Women 73.0 0.9
Total 170.4 1.4
Aged 21 and over
Men 82.1 23.8
Women 48.8 14.2
Total 130.9 38.0

(1)—AFE (Advanced Further Education) courses are courses of higher education. NAFE (Non-advanced Further Education) courses are lower level courses. Some students may be enrolled on both a full-time and a part-time (evening) course or on more than one part-time course. In the figures shown they are counted once for each course on which they are enrolled.

(2)—Ages as at 31 August.

(3)—Figures may not sum due to rounding.