Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many (a) female and (b) male students have undertaken part-time (i) undergraduate and (ii) postgraduate courses in the UK in each of the last 10 years.

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes data on students enrolled at UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The latest available statistics refer to the 2015/16 academic year and are published at the following link:

https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/12-01-2017/sfr242-student-enrolments-and-qualifications

Statistics on enrolments in part-time study by gender and level of study in the latest ten years for which data are available have been provided in the attached table.