HC Deb 26 April 1995 vol 258 c575W
Mrs. Anne Campbell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many mature students were registered for degrees at British universities in the last three years for which figures are available.[20790]

Mr. Boswell

The latest available data on all home domiciled, first year, full-time and part-time mature students on higher education courses at publicly funded institutions in Great Britain was published in September 1994 in statistical bulletin 16/94. The numbers of mature students enroling on a first degree course are shown in the table.

Thousands
Academic year beginning
1990 1991 1992
Full-time 34.7 50.5 66.4
Part-time 14.6 21.2 27.1

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