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Mr. Bayley : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list those official publications in which potential undergraduate and research students may inform themselves of the list of colleges in receipt of funding from the Higher Education Funding Council, together with associated relevant information about degree-level courses.
Mr. Boswell : The Department published last year a leaflet, "Higher Education : A New Framework", which lists all higher education colleges which are to be funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Information on courses is available in the "Guide for Applicants" available from the polytechnics central admission system and a number of commercially published compendia. Copies of both named publications are available in the Library.
Mr. Bayley : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list, for the latest year available and for every institution funded by the Universities Funding Council or the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council, the proportion of mature students admitted to degree-level courses funded by those institutions.
Mr. Boswell : The numbers of mature students in United Kingdom universities and in other higher education institutions in England are shown in volume 1--students and staff--of "University Statistics 1990-91" published by the Universities Statistical Record, and statistical bulletin 19/92, "Students in Higher Education, England 1990", published by the Department. Copies of both publications are in the Library.
Mr. Bayley : To ask the Secretary of State for Education what steps he intends to take this year to ensure that prospective students entering degree-level courses in September 1993 are fully aware that the quality of degree
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courses offered by institutions which are not permitted to designate themselves as universities is comparable to that provided by institutions which are.Mr. Boswell : All institutions that offer degrees have appropriate quality assurance mechanisms in place irrespective of whether they have "university" in their title. The Department's leaflet, "Higher Education : A New Framework", sets this out.
Truancy
Mr. Hanson : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will make a statement regarding his policy on (a) parents removing children from school during term time for reasons other than illness or bereavement and (b) his plans to reduce truancy levels in schools.
Mr. Forth : It is for individual schools to determine whether a given absence should be treated as authorised or unauthorised in the light of the particular circumstances of each case. My right hon. Friend attaches particular importance to maintaining high levels of attendance in our schools. To this end, schools are now required to publish their rates of unauthorised absence in their prospectuses and annual reports and this information will also be figuring in local comparative tables of school performance from this year onwards. To improve attendance at schools with high truancy levels, we have recently announced support for projects in 64 English local education authorities to a total value of £8.6 million under the "Reducing Truancy" programme of the grants for education support and training scheme for 1993-94.
Colleges
Mr. Bayley : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list all those institutions of which he is aware which now designate themselves colleges of further and higher education.
Mr. Boswell : On the basis of the list of institutions which have been incorporated under sections 15 and 16 of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, the information requested is as follows : Bromley College of Further and Higher Education
Havering College of Further and Higher Education
Matthew Boulton College of Further and Higher Education, Birmingham
Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education
Sandwell College of Further and Higher Education
Stockport College of Further and Higher Education
York College of Further and Higher Education
Yorkshire Coast College of Further and Higher Education, Scarborough
Research Courses
Mr. Bayley : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list, for the latest full year for which figures are available, for all institutions funded for research from the research councils, Government Departments and other public sources (a) the number of researchers at the college, (b) the total public research funding received by the institution and (c) the proportion of that institution's total research funding received from public sources.
Mr. Boswell : The latest details of research income received by each university in the United Kingdom were shown by source in "University Statistics 1989-90--
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Volume 3 (Finance)", published by the Universities' Statistical Record in February 1992. The latest details of the number of staff engaged in research only at each university were shown in "University Statistics 1990-91--Volume 1 (Students and staff)", published in November 1992. Copies of both are available in the Library. Comparable information is not available for the former polytechnics and colleges funded by the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council.KPMG Management Consultants
Ms. Mowlam : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list the contracts awarded by his Department to KPMG Management Consultants over the past 12 months.
Mr. Boswell : Six contracts were awarded by the Department for Education to KPMG Management Consulting in the 12 months to 31 December 1992 :
(a) Market testing programme for the Department.
(b
(Financial Management Review of Research Council contracts with other Government Departments.)
(c
(Review of Data Collection Processing System.)
(d
(Customer Survey (Teachers' Pensions Agency).)
(e
(Follow up to the Customer Survey (Teachers' Pensions Agency).) (f
(Assessment of the Pensions Administration System project (Teachers' Pensions Agency).)
Under the Department of Education and Science.
Youth Organisations
Mr. Bill Walker : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will give details of the names and addresses of the organisations which are on his register of voluntary youth organisations eligible for grants under a special London scheme ; if he will give details of the grants given to each organisation in the years (a) 1990-91, (b) 1991-92 and (c) 1992-93 ; and what has been achieved by the grants.
Mr. Boswell : The Londonwide education voluntary organisations that benefited from the Department's three-year interim scheme, and the levels of grant awarded are listed in the table ; their addresses have been placed in the Library. These special grants enabled the organisations concerned to sustain their work during a three-year transition period following the abolition of the ILEA.
Londonwide education voluntary organisations in receipt of
special grants 1990-91, 1991-92 and 1992-93
|1990-91|1991-92|1992-93
|£ |£ |£
---------------------------------------------------------------
Association of Combined Youth
Clubs |12,600 |12,600 |12,600
Association of Jewish Youth |5,000 |5,000 |5,000
Boys Brigade |7,600 |7,600 |7,600
Commonwealth Youth
Exchange Council |7,200 |7,500 |7,500
Diocese of London Lay
Ministry |10,800 |10,800 |10,800
Duke of Edinburgh Award
Scheme |5,000 |5,000 |5,000
Friends for the Young Deaf |7,600 |7,600 |7,600
Girl Guides Association |20,700 |20,700 |20,700
Greater London Central Scout
Association |5,000 |5,000 |5,000
Handicapped Adventure
Playground Association |19,800 |21,400 |21,400
Inner-London Pre-school
Playgroups Association |66,500 |66,500 |66,500
London Youth Matters |26,100 |26,700 |26,700
Inter-Action |18,000 |18,000 |18,000
London Adventure Playground
Association |51,500 |51,800 |51,800
London Federation of Boys
Clubs |61,200 |61,800 |61,800
London Union of Youth Clubs |54,900 |56,500 |56,500
London Voluntary Services
Council |18,000 |13,000 |13,000
Methodist Association of Youth
Clubs |7,200 |7,200 |7,200
National Federation of Gateway
Clubs |5,000 |5,000 |5,000
Parents in Partnership |5,000 |5,800 |5,800
PHAB |5,000 |5,000 |5,000
Roman Catholic Diocese of
Westminster |5,000 |3,400 |3,400
SENSE |12,100 |12,100 |12,100
Southwark Catholic Youth
Service |18,900 |19,700 |19,700
Southwark Diocesan Board of
Education |12,600 |12,600 |12,600
United Reformed Church |5,000 |5,000 |5,000
Volunteer Reading Help |5,000 |5,300 |5,300
Woodcraft Folk |10,800 |10,800 |10,800
YWCA |10,600 |10,600 |10,600
Youth Organisations
Mr. Bill Walker : To ask the Secretary of State for Education if he will list the names and addresses of voluntary youth organisations which have received grants for programmes of work designed to promote the personal and social education of young people in the years 1991-92 and 1992 -93 ; and what has been achieved by the grants.
Mr. Boswell : Organisations which have been awarded grant under the Department's scheme for national voluntary youth
organisations--NVYOs--during 1991-92 and 1992-93 are listed in the table ; their addresses have been placed in the Library. The grants have helped to promote the planned personal and social education of young people in priority areas including work with young people at risk, those from ethnic minorities, and those with disabilities ; curriculum development work in areas such as health education and social education ; and work to increase the operational efficiency of organisations and promote management training.
NVYOs in receipt of grant during 1991-92 and 1992-93
Association for Jewish Youth
Baptist Union of Great Britain
Boys Brigade
British Red Cross
British Youth Council
Campaigners
Catholic Youth Services
Church Army
Church of England Board of Education
Church Lads and Church Girls Brigade
Council for Environmental Education
Deaf Accord
Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme
Endeavour
Fairbridge
Forest School Camps
Frontier Youth Trust
Girl Guides Association
Girls Brigade
Inter-Action
Jewish Lads and Girls Brigade
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Methodist Association of Youth ClubsNational Association of Boys Clubs
National Association of Muslim Youth
National Association of Youth Theatres
National Council of YMCAs
National Federation of 18 Groups
National Federation of Gateway Clubs
National Federation of Young Farmers Clubs
National Organisation for Work with Girls/Young Women
National Youth Choir
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain
National Youth Theatre
National Association of Young People's Counselling and
Advisory Services (now Youth Access) (NAYPCAS)
New Testament Church of God
Ocean Youth Club
Outward Bound Trust
Physically Handicapped and Able-bodied (PHAB)
Quaker Home Service
Reform Synagogues of Great Britain
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
Sail Training Association
St John Ambulance Youth
Salvation Army
Scout Association
Sea Cadet Association
Single Parent Links and Special Holidays (SPLASH)
United Kingdom Federation of Jazz Bands
Union of Maccabi Associations
United Reform Church
Woodcraft Folk
Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA)
Young Christian Workers
Young Muslim Organisation
Youth Clubs United Kingdom
FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH AFFAIRS
Bosnia (No-fly Zone)
Mr. Elletson : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what information he has received about Croatian air force activity in the no-fly zone over Bosnia-Herzegovina in breach of UN resolution 781 ; what evidence exists that Croat flights are engaged in the smuggling of arms in breach of the international arms embargo ; what representations have been made to the Government of Croatia on this subject ; and if he will make a statement.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : The UN Secretary-General has issued regular reports to the Security Council giving details of violations of the no-fly zone established by resolution 781 of 9 October and 786 of 11 November. It is clear from these that, to varying degrees, all parties in Bosnia Herzegovina, including the Croats, have conducted flights outside the terms permitted in the resolutions, some of which may have been used to smuggle arms. The total of unauthorised flights to 14 January was 377. The United Kingdom and other members of the Security Council have made a de marche to the Croatian Government representative at the United Nations.
Mr. Elletson : To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the extent to which Bosnian-Serb aircraft have observed the provisions of UN Security Council resolution 781 ; and if he will support calls for enforcement of the no-fly zone.
Mr. Douglas Hogg : The UN Secretary-General has issued regular reports to the Security Council giving details of violations of the no-fly zone established by resolutions
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