Projected non-completion rates are released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) each year within the Performance Indicators in Higher Education publication. The latest available non-completion projections are shown in table 1.
Academic year Percentage 1999/2000 15.9 2000/01 15.0 2001/02 14.1 2002/03 14.4 2003/04 14.9 Source: “Performance Indicators in Higher Education”, published by HESA
The 2004/05 figure will be released by HESA on 19 July 2007. These non-completion rates are not available broken down by entry qualification.
Drop-out is more likely to occur during the first year of higher education. The performance indicators also include non-continuation rates, which show the proportion of entrants who are not detected in higher education after their first year. The latest available non-continuation rates are shown in table 2.
Academic year Percentage 1999/2000 7.8 2000/01 7.1 2001/02 7.3 2002/03 7.8 2003/04 7.7 Source: “Performance Indicators in Higher Education”, published by HESA
The 2004/05 figure will be released by HESA on 19 July 2007. The 2002/03 and 2003/04 non-continuation rates are available broken down by entry qualification, as shown in table 3.
Entry qualification categories/tariff points Entrants 2002/03 Entrants 2003/04 A-levels or highers: Unknown 11.3 12.6 Up to 200 11.7 11.9 201 to 290 7.9 8.1 291 to 380 4.9 5.3 Above 380 2.6 2.8 Other qualifications 11.4 11.6 All qualifications 7.8 7.7 Source: Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)