Higher Education: Greater Manchester
(asked on 24th February 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what percentage of school leavers entered higher education in each of the ten districts of Greater Manchester in each of the last five years.
The department publishes annual information on the proportion of students from state-funded and special schools who entered higher education by age 19 by local authority in its ‘Widening Participation in Higher Education’ statistical release.
The table below shows figures for the latest five years for local authorities within Greater Manchester.
Table 1: Percentage of pupils from state-funded and special schools who entered Higher Education by age 19 by local authority.
Local Authority | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 |
Bolton | 40% | 43% | 43% | 46% | 43% |
Bury | 41% | 44% | 46% | 43% | 44% |
Manchester | 35% | 37% | 39% | 39% | 42% |
Oldham | 37% | 40% | 40% | 40% | 41% |
Rochdale | 37% | 38% | 40% | 40% | 39% |
Salford | 34% | 32% | 34% | 33% | 32% |
Stockport | 38% | 39% | 41% | 40% | 43% |
Tameside | 31% | 35% | 37% | 36% | 36% |
Trafford | 50% | 52% | 53% | 54% | 57% |
Wigan | 37% | 38% | 40% | 41% | 40% |