Scotland4
T
public sector
Total
Academic
Table 3: Part-time students in higher education
GB Universities1
(excluding Open University)
Open University2
England & Wales3
Advanced further education
Under-
graduate
Post- graduate
Total
Under- graduate
Post-
experience
and others
Total
Part-time
day
Evening only
(000's)
(000's)
(000's) (000's)
(000's)
(000's) (000's)
(000's)
(000's)
(000's)
(000's)
1966/67
13
17
61
47
108
9
133
1967/68 4
14
18
68
47
115
10
143
1968/69
16
21
69
43
112
9
142
1969/70 5
19
24
72
43
115
11
150
1970/71 5
18
23
20
20
69
40
110
10
162
1971/72 3
19
23
32
32
70
38
107
10
172
1972/73 3
1973/74 3
1974/75 3 1975/76 4
1976/77
21
21
22222
20
23
20
23
22228
38
43
24
49
25
51
26
55
13
23763
41
46
56
5
56
68
FR888
71
37
107
9
180
73
36
108
10
187
80
36
116
12
208
85
38
123
13
217
37
125
13
233
Notes:
1Students enrolled in December, in general excluding those on short courses. Definition changed in 1971/72 2Students registered at any time during the calendar year beginning in the second year shown 3Students enrolled in November
4Students enrolled at any time during the year
The arts/science split
Teaching staff
3. Within the 1976/77 full-time and sandwich totals, there were about 40,000 home postgraduate students (including those not in universities) and about 55,000 overseas students (that is, including both undergraduates and post-graduates). The public expenditure White Paper assumes that home postgraduate numbers will remain at roughly their present level until 1981/82; and that overseas student numbers will decline slightly to a total of about 44,000 over the same period.
4. In practice, applicants qualified for higher education do not have an automatic right of entry to whatever course they choose. Individual institutions determine their own selection procedures. Nationally, quotas are set for admission to initial teacher training and pre-clinical courses, related in both cases to central assessments of qualified manpower requirements. Current policies for 1981 are to admit about 4,000 medical students and about 9,500 non-graduate initial teacher training students in England and Wales (11,500 including Scotland).
5. The distribution of higher education students between arts-based and science-based courses is not formulated as an explicit Government policy, although it has been the subject of much public discussion, reflecting broad judgments of social and economic needs. In 1976/77, the actual arts/science split for full-time and sandwich courses was 50/50 for higher education excluding teacher training, and 60/40 for higher education as a whole. The precise implications of recent trends for the split in the period up to 1981/82 are still being considered.
6. In 1976/77 higher education teaching staff numbered about 32,000 in universities (full-time staff paid wholly from university funds) and the equivalent of a further 32,000 full-time staff teaching advanced courses in the maintained sector. The student: staff ratios implied by these totals are 8.9:1 in universities and 8.4:1 in the maintained sector.
7. The age profile of higher education teachers reflects the large numbers of young staff recruited during the rapid expansion of the 1960s and early 1970s. Chart 3 gives a snapshot by age of non-clinical teaching staff in universities
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