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Foundation Degree Courses

Volume 454: debated on Monday 11 December 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the cost is to the public purse of the completion of a foundation degree, broken down by subject. (105522)

The latest available information is shown in the table.

The Higher Education Funding Council for England have stated that the average recurrent teaching grant for foundation degrees assuming completion in two years full-time (or two years full-time equivalent part-time) at 2006-07 prices is as follows.

£

Subject type

Full-time

Part-time

Laboratory based science and engineering

12,023

12,186

Other high cost subjects with a laboratory, studio or field work element

8,679

9,099

Classroom based subjects

6,199

6,872