HC Deb 30 January 1990 vol 166 cc147-8W
16. Mr. Mans

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how many Open university students have graduated since the university was founded; and what proportion of British university graduates are now produced by the Open university each year.

Mr. Jackson

The Open university has awarded 101,900 ordinary BA degrees, and 18,094 honours degress since it admitted its first students in 1971. In 1988 it produced 9.9 per cent. of United Kingdom university graduates. and 5.3 per cent. of all United Kingdom graduates.