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Higher Education: Admissions

Volume 477: debated on Tuesday 17 June 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many residents of (a) Cleethorpes constituency, (b) North East Lincolnshire and (c) North Lincolnshire entered higher education in each of the last 10 years; and how many of those were (i) mature and (ii) part-time in each of those years. (211849)

The latest available information is shown in the table. Comparable figures for the 2007/08 academic year will be available in January 2009.

Entrants1 to undergraduate courses from Cleethorpes parliamentary constituency, North East Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire local authorities—UK higher education institutions—academic years 1997/98 to 2006/07

Cleethorpes

North East Lincolnshire

North Lincolnshire

Of all entrants2

Of all entrants2

Of all entrants2

Academic year

All entrants

Mature3

Part-time

All entrants

Mature3

Part-time

All entrants

Mature3

Part-time

1997/984

570

265

130

910

460

200

1,040

460

260

1998/99

620

290

195

1,035

535

345

1,120

515

315

1999/2000

650

315

205

1,050

540

360

1,210

600

385

2000/01

715

400

325

1,055

630

505

1,360

720

540

2001/02

620

315

225

965

520

365

1,255

665

450

2002/03

710

380

305

1,030

595

470

1,370

720

515

2003/04

670

340

255

1,065

560

410

1,185

660

500

2004/055

715

405

340

1,065

615

490

1,165

580

475

2005/06

665

355

290

1,050

590

455

1,070

515

425

2006/07

655

340

280

1,015

565

435

1,215

655

600

1 Figures are on a snapshot basis as at 1 December to maintain a consistent time series across all years and are rounded to the nearest five. Figures include the Open University but exclude those on writing up, sabbatical or dormant mode of study.

2 Breakdowns for mature and part-time students contain double counting (i.e. part-time students over 21 years of age will be included in both columns).

3 Mature undergraduate students are aged 21 and over. Figures include a small number of students whose age was unknown.

4 Figures for 1997/98 exclude the Open University because there are no figures available for entrants to undergraduate courses at the Open University by local authority for this year.

5 As a consequence of a problem identified with data submitted by the Open University (OU) in the 2004/05 academic year, a number of students were not returned as entrants although included in the total enrolments figure. However as a result, the increase in entrants between 2004/05 and 2005/06 appears greater than in reality, particularly in respect of undergraduate entrants.

Source:

Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)