Women Engineers

Mrs. Angela Knight
To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many women took up (a) further engineering courses and (b) higher engineering courses in (i) 1969, (ii) 1985 and (iii) 1991.

Mr. Forman
The number of women on engineering and technology courses in England was: -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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|Further education enrolments                                         |
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|Higher education enrolments (including universities' student numbers)|
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In 1969–70 the information collected was for England and Wales.----------------------------------------------------
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|Further education students                        |
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|Higher education students (including universities)|
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