Higher Education: Qualifications

(asked on 23rd January 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 16 January 2017 to Question 60187, how many of the 56 per cent of students in 2014-15 were studying for (a) honours degrees, (b) Level 4 qualifications and (c) any other higher education qualification.


This question was answered on 26th January 2017

Information on higher education enrolments at Alternative Providers (APs) in England designated for student support is collected and published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). The latest statistics refer to the 2014/15 Academic Year and are available at: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/15-06-2016/sfr235-alternative-providers

Analysis of HESA’s AP Record shows that in Academic Year 2014/15, there were 28,230 undergraduate students aged over 25 enrolled in APs designated for student support and with 50 or more students. Of these:

(a) 7,635 were on first degrees and

(b) 20,595 were on other undergraduate courses[1], of which 970 were on level 4 qualifications[2].

[1] This includes students on HND/HNC courses and those on other undergraduate courses, as defined in the HESA AP publication at https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/15-06-2016/sfr235-alternative-providers

[2] Level 4 includes Certificate of higher education (CertHE), Higher national certificate (HNC), Level 4 award, Level 4 certificate, Level 4 diploma and Level 4 NVQ.

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