§ Mr. SalmondTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will publish a table showing the proportion of school leavers in Scotland who continued into(a) university education and (b) other higher education for each year since 1979.
§ Mr. Michael ForsythThe information for each year since 1979 is not readily available. The most recent information from the biennial Scottish young people's survey relating to the destination of school leavers was published by the Scottish Education Department in its statistical bulletin "School Leavers' Destinations (No 12/E1/1988)" published in December 1988 which is available in the Library.
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(a) on part-time contracts (b) re-employed after receiving PRC (c) those in column b re-employed after receiving redundancy compensation Craigie 2 None — Jordanhill 5 None — Moray House 1 None —
§ Mr. Michael ForsythI refer the hon. Member to the two replies which I gave on 19 December 1988 to the hon. Member for Angus, East (Mr. Welsh) at columns81–82.