Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, with reference the letter of 23 January 2022 from the Minister of State for Higher and Further Education to hon. Members, if he will list the 25 higher education providers noted in the correspondence where less than half of students who began a degree can expect to (a) graduate and (b) find professional employment or further study within 15 months.

The Office for Students (OfS) publishes statistics across different aspects of the student lifecycle to help inform regulatory processes.

Proceed, or projected completion and employment from entrant data, is a measure that projects rates of students progressing from entry to first degree programmes through to positive graduate destinations. This has been produced using the methodology described within the research report "Projected completion and employment from entrant data (Proceed)", available here: https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/publications/proceed-updated-methodology-and-results/.

The proceed measure brings together projected data on the number of full time first degree students who complete their studies (completion rates) with data about the progression of recent graduates into professional employment or further study (progression rates). The two components that combine to form the proceed measure (projected completion and graduate progression) are each based on established reporting of that data by the Higher Education Statistics Agency.

The attached table contains an extract of the 25 providers, where the proceed measure was under 50 per cent, meaning less than half of students graduate and find professional employment or further study.