Mr. Alan W. WilliamsTo ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will give the percentages of young people aged 18 to 21 years in full-time education studying a science subject in each of the member countries of the OECD.
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe readily available information is given in the table.
Students1 enrolled on higher education science2 courses as a proportion of the population aged 18–25 in 19913 Per cent. Belgium3 3.6 Canada 8.4 Denmark 8.3 France 7.8 Germany, FRG 10.4 Greece3 7.0 Ireland 7.1 Italy 7.4 Japan3 4.8 Netherlands4 6.5 Portugal 3.9 Spain3 6.9 United Kingdom3 4 7.7 United States of America 11.9 1 Full and part-time students. 2 Science includes Natural Science, Mathematics and Computer Science, Medical and Health related, Engineering, Architecture and Town Planning and Trade Craft and Industrial programmes. 3 1990 data for Belgium, Greece, Spain and Japan and 1992 for the United Kingdom. 4 Excluding Open University enrolments in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. 5 The sources used are: UNESCO Statistical Yearbook, 1992 and 1993; United States Digest of Education Statistics, 1993; Data supplied by OECD for Education at a Glance, 1993; Education Statistics for the United Kingdom 1992 and 1993.