The latest available information is given in the table. Comparable figures for earlier years are not available.
Full-time Part-time Total Funded by Higher Education Funding Council for England 2000/01 55,943 59,097 115,040 2001/02 54,813 59,000 113,813 2002/03 50,151 55,636 105,787 2003/04 49,170 54,681 103,851 2004/05 48,628 52,113 100,741 2005/06 48,483 49,004 97,487 2006/07 50,940 53,813 104,753 Funded by Learning and Skills Council4 2001/02 2002/03 12,005 57,337 69,342 2003/04 10,176 63,812 73,988 2004/05 8,657 62,784 71,441 2005/06 6,733 60,328 67,061 1 All student numbers are headcounts and include some students who were forecast not to complete their studies. The figures include both directly funded and indirectly funded students. Indirectly funded students are those who are: registered at member colleges of HEFCE-recognised funding consortia; franchised from an FE colleges to another FE college, as well as those franchised from an HEI to an FE college; and “partially” franchised to an FE college. Comparable figures for indirectly funded students are not available prior to 2000/01. 2 Full-time includes students on a sandwich year out. 3 The figures have not been adjusted for colleges that transferred during this period from the FE to the HE sector, or for those which merged with HE institutions, and which therefore account for some of the year-on-year reductions. 4 The figures cover students undertaking courses at level 4 or above at further education colleges only. Students on work-based learning courses cannot be disaggregated by mode of study and have therefore been excluded from the figures. Comparable figures for earlier years broken down by full-time/part-time are not available. Source: Higher Education Funding Council for England, and Learning and Skills Council.