HC Deb 17 December 1998 vol 322 cc665-6W
Mr. Dalyell

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many graduate students of (i) nuclear and (ii) elementary particle physics there were at UK universities in(a) 1980, (b) 1985, (c) 1990, (d) 1995 and (e) 1998. [63083]

Mr. Mudie

The data requested are not available centrally. The available data show the numbers of postgraduate physics students in total but do not separately identify nuclear or elementary particle physics. The figures for physics are as follows:

Postgraduate students in Physics—former Universities Funding Council (UFC) Universities in Great Britain
Academic year Full-time Part-time
1980–81 1,794 755
1985–86 1,850 538
Postgraduate students in Physics—former Universities Funding Council (UFC) Universities in Great Britain
Academic year Full-time Part-time
1990–91 2,216 555
1995–96 2,545 1,351
1997–98 2,319 1,330