§ Mr. BoswellTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what institutions are currently designated under section 28 of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992; and which of these have(a) been designated and (b) have had their designation withdrawn during the last three years. [120830]
§ Mr. Wicks[holding answer 8 May 2000]: There are currently 32 designated colleges under section 28 of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992. Of these, 19 are designated under subsection 28(2)(a) as former voluntary aided schools and the remaining 13 colleges were designated under subsections 28(2)(b) and 28(2)(c) and are generally referred to as "specialist designated".
There have been no new designations since the establishment of the FE sector on 1 April 1993. Three designated colleges have merged since then with other colleges: St. Phillip's Roman Catholic Sixth Form College (now part of South Birmingham College) on 31 August 1995; National Sea Training College (now part of North West Kent College of Technology) on 25 October 1996; and De La Salle College (now part of Pendleton College) on 7 February 1997.
The full list of designated colleges is as follows:
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- Aquinas College, Stockport
- Cardinal Newman College, Preston
- Carmel College, St. Helens
- Christ the King Sixth Form College, Lewisham
- College of Richard Collyer in Horsham, Horsham
- Holy Cross College, Bury
- King Edward VI College, Nuneaton
- King Edward VI College, Stourbridge
- Loreto College, Manchester
- Ludlow College, Ludlow
- Notre Dame Sixth Form College, Leeds
- St. Brendan's Sixth Form College, Bristol
- St. Charles Catholic Sixth Form College, London
- St. Dominic's Sixth Form College, Harrow-on-the-Hill
- St. Francis Xavier Sixth Form College, London
- St. John Rigby Roman Catholic Sixth Form College, Wigan
- St. Mary's College, Blackburn
- St. Mary's RC Sixth Form College, Middlesbrough
- Xaverian College, Manchester
- City Literary Institute, London
- Cooperative College, Loughborough
- Cordwainers College, Hackney
- Fircroft College of Adult Education, Selly Oak
- Hillcroft College, Surbiton
- Marine Society College of the Sea, London
- Mary Ward Centre, London
- Morley College, London
- Northern College for Residential Adult Education, Barnsley
- Plater College, Oxford
- Ruskin College, Oxford
- Worker's Educational Association, London
- Working Men's College, London.
§ Mr. BoswellTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many extra full-time places in higher education have been created in each of the last five years. [120834]
§ Mr. Wicks[holding answer 8 May 2000]: The available information is given in the table. Plans which distinguish between full and part-time places are available only from the academic year 1999–2000.
Publicly funded higher education places in England 1 FTEs in thousands Financial year Planned places Extra funded places (or reduction) 1994–95 941 — 1995–96 961 20 1996–97 1,003 243 1997–98 1,001 (2) 1998–99 1,023 22 1999–2000 1,035 12 1 Includes full and part-time, undergraduate and postgraduate students on the basis of full-time equivalents (FTEs). Places shown are those funded through the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) or the Teacher Training Agency (TTA), and exclude those in further education colleges funded by the Further Education Funding Council (FEFC). 2 1996 plans included an additional 28,000 mainstreamed continuing education places, which had previously not been funded.