Higher Education

HC Deb 10 March 1988 vol 129 cc284-5W

Rev. Martin Smyth

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many students from(a) Northern Ireland, (b) countries within the EEC and (c) countries outside the EEC are currently attending higher education courses in (i) Scotland, (ii) England and (iii) Wales.

Mr. Jackson

The information is shown in the following table:

Full-time and sandwich students in higher education, 1986
Great Britain	Thousands
	England	Wales	Scotland
Domiciled in Northern Ireland	4.9	0.3	1.5

	England	Wales	Scotland
Other United Kingdom	430.5	29.2	73.6
European Community	7.4	0.3	0.8
Other Countries	38.3	3.1	6.3