Nurses: Students

(asked on 9th January 2023) - View Source
Questioner
Matt Western Portrait
Matt Western
(Labour - Warwick and Leamington)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of nursing students who completed their training at higher education providers were UK nationals in the 2021-22 academic year.

Answered by
Robert Halfon Portrait
Robert Halfon
This question was answered on 18th January 2023

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes statistics on enrolments and qualifications obtained at UK Higher Education Providers (HEPs). Latest statistics refer to the academic year 2020/21. Data for the 2021/22 academic year is due to be published on 19 January 2023.

The table below shows the number of students that have qualified from their first-degree from a UK HEI in a medical related subject by domicile.

Full-person-equivalent1 First Degree qualifiers in select subjects at UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) by domicile, in the academic year 2020/21

Subject area 2

Number of first-degree qualifiers domiciled in the UK

Number of first-degree qualifiers domiciled outside of the UK

Total number of first-degree qualifiers

Percentage of first-degree qualifiers domiciled in the UK

Dentistry (CAH01-01-04)

980

85

1,060

92.5%

Medicine (CAH01-01-01, CAH01-01-02, CAH01-01-03)

7,965

1,360

9,325

85.4%

Nursing and midwifery (CAH02-04)

23,280

615

23,915

97.3%

Veterinary sciences (CAH05-01)

1,285

325

1,610

79.8%

  1. Counts are based on full-person-equivalents. Where a student is studying more than one subject, they are apportioned between the subjects that make up their course. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 5, in line with HESA rounding conventions, information on HESA rounding is available at: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/definitions/students#rounding-and-suppression-strategy. Numbers may not sum due to rounding.
  2. Information on qualifiers by principal HECoS code is published by HESA as part of their Open Data Pages Table 54, available at: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-54. As of 2019/20, the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) was introduced which means that the figures found in the table below are not directly comparable with years prior to 2019/20.
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