Undergraduates

HC Deb 17 February 1992 vol 204 cc38-9W

Mr. Worthington

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how amny full-time undergraduates there were at British universities in each year since 1979.

Alan Howarth

The information is given in the table.

Great Britain-Full-time undergraduate students
	Number
1979	245,093
1980	251,154
1981	253,371
1982	250,024
1983	244,249
1984	241,688
1985	242,922
1986	246,430
1987	250,710
1988	260,684
1989	275,320
1990	289,069

Source: Universities Statistical Record.