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Employment (Students)
Dr. Howells: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what percentage of successful full-time higher education students from institutions in Wales other than the University of Wales gained first destination permanent employment in each of the years 1989-90 to 1993-94. [9974]
Mr. Jonathan Evans: The information requested may be found in table 6.10 of the recent Welsh Office publication "Further and Higher Education and Training Statistics in Wales 1996", published in May 1996. A copy of the publication is available in the Library of the House.
Training
Dr. Howells: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what percentage of employees of working age received on-the-job training in Wales, broken down by gender in the most recent year for which figures are available. [9976]
Mr. Gwilym Jones: The spring 1996 labour force survey estimated that, in Wales 8 per cent. of male, 5.5 per cent. of female and 6.8 per cent. of all employees of working age received on-the-job training in the four weeks before the interview. The information for numbers receiving training in a year is not available in the form requested.
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Roads
Dr. Howells: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will make a statement on planned expenditure on new construction and improvement of roads in Wales for the next year. [9972]
Mr. Gwilym Jones: My right hon. Friend announced our spending plans for 1997-98 on 12 December 1996, Official Report, columns 405-19. These include £113 million for the trunk road and motorway network and £76 million for local roads, including £54 million for transport grant schemes. Details of future improvements to the road network will be published in the Welsh Office's departmental report in the spring.
GCSE Grades
Dr. Howells: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what percentage of school leavers gained GCSE grades A*-C in (a) mathematics, (b) English and (c) science in the most recent year for which figures are available, broken down by gender. [9978]
Mr. Jonathan Evans: Information is not collected centrally on grades achieved in individual GCSE subjects by school leavers. Information relating to pupils aged 15--age as at 31 August 1995--or the academic year 1995-96 is contained in the following table.
| Mathematics | English | Science | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys | 39 | 40 | 42 |
| Girls | 42 | 58 | 43 |
| Pupils | 40 | 49 | 42 |
(28) Age as at 31 August 1995.
Assisted Places
Mr. Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales how many pupils in each county in Wales have been included in the assisted places scheme in the last five years; and how many are planned in the next two years. [9850]
Mr. Jonathan Evans: The number of assisted place pupils in Wales in the last five years, in each of the counties within which participating schools are located, is shown in the following table, along with information the number of assisted places planned in the next two years. Information on individual pupils' place of residence is not held centrally.
| Academic year | 1992-93 | 1993-94 | 1994-95 | 1995-1996 | 1996-97 | 1997-98 | 1998--99 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clwyd | 177 | 179 | 186 | 191 | -- | -- | -- |
| Dyfed | 52 | 52 | 55 | 61 | -- | -- | -- |
| Gwent | 219 | 208 | 221 | 214 | -- | -- | -- |
| Powys | 81 | 87 | 88 | 91 | -- | -- | -- |
| South Glamorgan | 171 | 165 | 173 | 169 | -- | -- | -- |
| Bridgend | -- | -- | -- | -- | 14 | 28 | 42 |
| Cardiff | -- | -- | -- | -- | 208 | 233 | 258 |
| Carmarthenshire | -- | -- | -- | -- | 69 | 77 | 85 |
| Conwy | -- | -- | -- | -- | 142 | 166 | 190 |
| Denbighshire | -- | -- | -- | -- | 94 | 108 | 122 |
| Gwynedd | -- | -- | -- | -- | 9 | 18 | 27 |
| Monmouthshire | -- | -- | -- | -- | 228 | 238 | 248 |
| Newport | -- | -- | -- | -- | 15 | 30 | 45 |
| Powys | -- | -- | -- | -- | 101 | 111 | 121 |
| Swansea | -- | -- | -- | -- | 7 | 14 | 21 |
| Totals | 700 | 691 | 720 | 726 | 887 | 1,023 | 1,159 |
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General National Vocational Qualifications
Dr. Howells: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list the percentage of successful GNVQ candidates in Wales who (a) obtained full-time employment, (b) obtained part-time employment, (c) entered further training schemes, (d) continued with further or higher education and (e) became unemployed in (i) 1992-93, (ii) 1993-94 and (iii) 1994-95. [9967]
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Mr. Jonathan Evans: The information requested is not held centrally.
Further Education
Dr. Howells: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales if he will list (a) the student-staff ratio and (b) average class size for each of the institutes of further education in Wales in each of the years 1990-91 to 1995-96. [9969]
Mr. Jonathan Evans: The available information is shown in the following table.
| 1990-91 | 1991-92 | 1992-93 | 1993-94 | 1994-95 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Institution | Student staff ratio | Average class size | Student staff ratio | Average class size | Student class ratio | Average class size | Student staff ratio | Average class size | Student staff ratio | |
| Aberdare College | 14.1 | 18.2 | 20.5 | 26.6 | 19.6 | 25.2 | 20.0 | 26.7 | 16.7 | |
| Afan College | 11.5 | 14.5 | 15.2 | 15.5 | 15.0 | 23.0 | 13.9 | 16.9 | 13.4 | |
| Barry College | 11.4 | 14.1 | 12.8 | 15.7 | 13.3 | 15.1 | 12.3 | 14.2 | 14.9 | |
| Bridgend College | 11.1 | 15.1 | 13.9 | 18.4 | 13.9 | 18.4 | 15.5 | 20.2 | 14.3 | |
| Carmarthen College of Technology and Art | 12.8 | 16.8 | 13.8 | 16.5 | 14.5 | 16.6 | 16.2 | 18.7 | 18.9 | |
| Coleg Ceredigion | 11.5 | 13.0 | 11.7 | 14.0 | 12.1 | 13.6 | 11.3 | 12.5 | 9.7 | |
| Coleg Glan Hafren(30) | 12.1 | 13.9 | 16.4 | 15.8 | 17.1 | 15.8 | -- | -- | 21.3 | |
| Coleg Glynllifon(31) | 6.0 | 9.5 | 6.9 | 8.8 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Coleg Harlech | -- | -- | -- | -- | 9.7 | 7.9 | 14.0 | 4.1 | 16.3 | |
| Coleg Llysfasi College | 8.1 | 11.1 | 8.0 | 10.5 | 9.8 | 11.0 | 9.5 | 9.8 | 11.2 | |
| Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor(31) | -- | -- | -- | -- | 9.3 | 11.4 | 8.8 | 11.9 | 10.6 | |
| Coleg Meirionydd(31) | 9.2 | 11.0 | 10.2 | 12.0 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Coleg Menai(32) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 17.0 | |
| Coleg Pencraig(32) | 11.1 | 12.9 | 13.1 | 14.8 | 14.4 | 15.5 | 13.0 | 13.2 | -- | |
| Coleg Powys | 9.9 | 12.8 | 10.4 | 13.8 | 12.0 | 15.3 | 13.0 | 16.1 | 14.6 | |
| Crosskeys College(33) | 10.0 | 12.6 | 14.0 | 15.3 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Deeside College(34) | -- | -- | -- | -- | 12.7 | 17.0 | 13.7 | 17.5 | 14.5 | |
| Ebbw Vale College(29) | 7.6 | 9.9 | 10.2 | 12.4 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Gorseinon College | 12.0 | 14.4 | 12.7 | 14.1 | 14.2 | 14.6 | 13.4 | 14.1 | 14.8 | |
| Gwent Tertiary College(33) | -- | -- | -- | -- | 12.9 | 14.4 | 14.1 | 14.2 | 12.3 | |
| Gwynedd Technical College(32) | 10.0 | 13.2 | 11.5 | 13.7 | 12.2 | 14.2 | 15.1 | 18.1 | -- | |
| Llandrillo College | 11.2 | 15.9 | 12.7 | 15.2 | 15.7 | 17.3 | 15.0 | 17.3 | 12.9 | |
| Merthyr Tydfil College | 11.3 | 14.8 | 13.4 | 16.0 | 15.7 | 17.5 | 14.9 | 16.8 | 14.4 | |
| Neath College | 13.0 | 15.8 | 14.1 | 16.3 | 15.8 | 16.5 | 16.9 | 16.9 | 14.7 | |
| Newport College(31) | 10.7 | 12.5 | 12.9 | 15.4 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| North East Wales Institute(34) | 11.5 | 14.5 | 13.1 | 19.5 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Pembrokeshire College | 14.0 | 16.8 | 14.4 | 16.4 | 14.9 | 16.9 | 15.6 | 17.0 | 11.4 | |
| Pencoed College | 6.3 | 8.9 | 8.1 | 11.5 | 9.2 | 12.3 | 14.2 | 18.4 | 12.1 | |
| Pontypool College(33) | 10.8 | 11.9 | 12.6 | 13.4 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Pontypridd College | 12.2 | 14.3 | 12.9 | 17.5 | 13.7 | 18.5 | 13.5 | 16.0 | 15.4 | |
| Rhondda College | 11.5 | 14.9 | 12.7 | 16.3 | 13.4 | 14.9 | 14.1 | 16.5 | 17.4 | |
| St. Davids 6th Form College | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 15.4 | 16.8 | 12.2 | |
| Swansea College | 15.6 | 17.0 | 16.0 | 17.2 | 16.0 | 17.0 | 16.7 | 17.7 | 17.4 | |
| Usk Agricultural College(33) | 7.0 | 9.2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Welsh Agricultural College(35) | 9.1 | 19.9 | 9.5 | 18.4 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |
| Welsh College of Horticulture | 8.9 | 12.3 | 10.9 | 15.8 | 13.3 | 19.1 | 12.1 | 17.2 | 11.8 | |
| Yale College | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 14.4 | 14.9 | 11.8 | |
| Ystrad Mynach College | 12.0 | 14.7 | 13.2 | 16.1 | 13.6 | 15.8 | 13.9 | 16.7 | 14.0 | |
| Wales average | 11.4 | 14.3 | 13.2 | 13.5 | 13.8 | 16.1 | 14.1 | 16.0 | 14.3 | |
Source:
Welsh Office and Further Education Funding Council for Wales.
Notes:
(29) Data from Welsh Office annual monitoring survey to 1993-94. Calculated from Welsh Office further education student record and FEFCW staff individualised record for 1994-95. Data for 1990-91 to 1993-94 relate only to further education courses of students, 1994-95 data relate to all courses of study at further education institutions. Excludes WEA north and south and YMCA which are not colleges.
(30) 1993-94 data not given.
(31) In September 1992, Coleg Glynllifon and Coleg Merionydd amalgamated to form Coleg Merion-Dwyfor.
(32) In September 1994, Coleg Pencraig and Gwynedd Technical college amalgamated to form Coleg Menai.
(33) In September 1992, the colleges of Newport, Crosskeys, Pontypool (including Usk college, from 1991-92) and Ebbw Vale amalgamated to form Gwent tertiary college.
(34) In January 1993, North East Wales Institute divided to form Deeside college and North East Wales Institute of HE.
(35) In February 1993, Welsh Agricultural college became a higher education institution.
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