Foundation Degree Courses Mr. Boris Johnson To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the cost is to the public purse of the completion of a foundation degree, broken down by subject. Bill Rammell The latest available information is shown in the table. The Higher Education Funding Council for England have stated that the average recurrent teaching grant for foundation degrees assuming completion in two years full-time (or two years full-time equivalent part-time) at 2006-07 prices is as follows. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Subject type |Full-time|Part-time| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Laboratory based science and engineering |12,023 |12,186 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Other high cost subjects with a laboratory, studio or field work element|8,679 |9,099 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Classroom based subjects |6,199 |6,872 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------