Higher Education: Admissions

(asked on 11th January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students studied higher education in further education colleges in each constituency in each of the last five years.


This question was answered on 12th April 2016

Information by constituency can only be provided at disproportionate cost. Region-level statistics on enrolments in higher education at further education colleges have been provided as an alternative. The statistics are based on data held by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), and refer to the academic years 2011/12 to 2013/14. Information for the latest two academic years is not yet available.


Full-person equivalent students taught Higher Education qualifications at Further Education Colleges in England by region of domicile

Academic years 2011/12 to 2013/14

Region of domicile

Academic Year

2011/12

2012/13

2013/14

North East

11,940

9,445

9,370

North West

20,190

19,690

19,800

Yorkshire and the Humber

16,400

14,990

15,175

East Midlands

7,645

7,175

7,085

West Midlands

10,575

9,950

9,610

East of England

10,560

8,935

8,845

London

10,765

10,205

9,575

South East

13,895

12,610

12,035

South West

13,365

12,010

11,380

Wales

850

795

715

Scotland

540

495

490

Northern Ireland

240

285

260

EU

1,070

745

540

Rest of the world

1,570

1,605

1,075

England (unknown)

360

425

485

United Kingdom (unknown)

25

20

65

Total all domiciles

119,990

109,380

106,510

Source: Information is derived from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) student return and the FE Data Service's individualised learner record (ILR) F05 return

Coverage:

- Includes students registered with HEIs but taught at FECs under franchised arrangements

- Students registered at FECs are only included if they are studying a prescribed course of HE

- Includes all levels and modes of higher education study and distance learners

- Numbers are based on where the student was domiciled rather than where the student studied

- Full-person equivalents (FPEs) have been rounded to the nearest 5

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