Hansard

Students

Volume 225: debated on Thursday 20 May 1993

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Mr. Beith

To ask the Secretary of State for Education what was the total full-time equivalent number of students in higher education, postgraduate and undergraduate, from the United Kingdom and EC, in each year from 1980 to the most recent year available.

Mr. Boswell

Total full-time equivalent (FTE) student numbers of United Kingdom and EC domiciled' higher education students in Great Britain institutions are shown in the table:

YearFTE2 (thousands)
1980542·7
1981570·5
1982587·8
1983603·6
1984612·4
1985624·1
1986642·1
1987655·4
1988678·6
1989724·8
1990785·3
1991880·6
1 Includes a small number of non-EC overseas domiciled part-time students.
2 An illustrative weight of 0·35 has been applied to part-time students to derive full-time equivalent student numbers.

Sources: USR, FESR, WO, SOED.