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Dr. Lynne Jones
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list the participation in full-time and sandwich undergraduate study by (a) constituency and (b) socio-economic groups A and E in (i) 1985, (ii) 1990 and (iii) 1995. [35723]
Dr. Howells
Data on participation in higher education by parliamentary constituency are not available centrally. The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects the home postcode of higher education students, which would enable individual constituencies to be identified, but at present no such analysis has been carried out.The available data on participation by socio-economic group are given in the table:
| Participation in higher education1 by socio-economic group: young full-time undergraduates | |||
| percentage | |||
| Academic year beginning | |||
| Socio-economic group | 1985 | 1990 | 1995 |
| A Professional | n/a | n/a | 79.4 |
| B Intermediate | n/a | n/a | 45.4 |
| Cl Skilled Non-Manual' | n/a | n/a | 31.2 |
| A toCl | 35.2 | 36.7 | 46.6 |
| C2 Skilled Manual | n/a | n/a | 18.3 |
| D Partly Skilled | n/a | n/a | 17.2 |
| E Unskilled | n/a | n/a | 12.5 |
| C2 toE | 8.3 | 10.3 | 17.4 |
| 1 Estimates of the numbers of young home initial entrants to full-time and sandwich undergraduate courses in Great Britain, expressed as a proportion of the averaged 18 to 19 year old population. | |||
Note:
n/a = not available