Students: Disability
(asked on 21st October 2015) - View Source
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what estimate his Department has made of the number of students with a disability in higher education; and if he will make a statement.
This question was answered on 26th October 2015
The latest statistics available from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) show that in the academic year 2013/14 there were 1.1 million UK domiciled enrolments at UK Higher Education Institutions, of which 138,670 declared a disability.
Further information is published on the HESA website and can be located from this web-link https://www.hesa.ac.uk/content/view/1973/239/