HC Deb 17 January 1994 vol 235 cc412-3W
Dr. Lynne Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many postgraduate students have successfully completed their doctorates within British universities for each year over the last five years.

Mr. Boswell

The number of students successfully completing doctorates in the former UFC-funded universities in the United Kingdom in the last five years for which information is currently available was as follows:

Number
1987–88 7,552
1988–89 7,745
1989–90 8,380
1990–91 8,447
1991–92 8,878