Corrections

In the THES survey of vice-chancellors' pay (February 6) the amount of Pounds 83,000 shown under the entry for Queen Margaret College includes both Joan Stringer's remuneration from her appointment in November 4 1996 and that of her predecessor, Donald Leach.

In the THES table showing percentage change in applications to individual universities last year (February 13) the -12 per cent figure quoted for Liverpool John Moores University should be -6.7 per cent.

In 1997, the university processed all applications for the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, which now processes its own applications.

FACT FILE

The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that:

Of a total of 5,075 first-degree UK-based graduates who went abroad to study: * 404 were engineering and technology graduates

* 1,138 were language graduates

* 502 were business and administrative studies graduates