§ Mr. Andrew SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science if he will list for each university(a) the total fee support grant allocated by the Universities Funding Council, (b) the number of part-time students and (c) the number of self-financing students, for the latest year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. Alan HowarthThe shift in public funding of universities from the block grant to the fee paid as part of the mandatory awards arrangements relates to home and EC award holders on designated courses. The following table shows the element in the Universities Funding Council block grants to universities for academic year 1990–91 based on the number of self-financing full-time and part-time students on designated and other courses. It is for the universities themselves to set fee levels, and to280W dispose of their block grant and fee income as they judge best. The table also shows total numbers of university part-time home and overseas students in 1988–89.
Universities fees support grants and part-time students UFC fees support grant1 1990–91 £ million Part-time students2 1988–89 Aston — 473 Bath 0.072 506 Birmingham 0.360 1,253 Bradford 0.106 690 Bristol 0.274 545 Brunel 0.058 1,076 Cambridge 0.197 1,144 City 0.081 1,268 Durham 0.193 469 East Anglia 0.206 542 Essex 0.111 180 Exeter 0.116 689 Hull 0.175 732 Keele — 356 Kent 0.346 568 Lancaster 0.044 662 Leeds 0.247 1,023 Leicester 0.119 489 Liverpool 0.173 1,053 London Business School — 237 London 3.978 9,884 Loughborough 0.099 601 Manchester Business School — 98 Manchester 0.427 1,707 UMIST 0.072 226 Newcastle 0.177 698 Nottingham 0.196 1,043 Oxford 0.288 1,897 Reading 0.154 581 Salford 0.200 918 Sheffield 0.217 690 Southampton 0.210 803 Surrey 0.087 802 Sussex 0.226 395 Warwick 0.285 1,226 York 0.019 382 Aberystwyth 0.051 238 Bangor 0.100 354 Cardiff 0.348 1,196 St. David's 0.001 37 Swansea 0.094 351 College of Medicine 0.021 149 Aberdeen 0.325 570 Dundee 0.161 213 Edinburgh 0.495 922 Glasgow 0.612 2,097 Heriot-Watt 0.124 512 St. Andrews 0.103 121 Stirling 0.248 525 Strathclyde 0.018 1,355 Total (Great Britain universities) 12.214 44,546 Note:
Numbers of self-financing students within each institution are not published or held by the Department. The Universities Statistical Record shows that, for academic year 1988–89, there were some 61,000 full-time and part-time, home and overseas students in Great Britain universities recorded as supported only by private funds.
1 Universities Funding Council Circular Letter 12/90.
2 Universities Statistical Record Volume 1 "Students and Staff" 1988–89.