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Higher Education: Enfield

Volume 489: debated on Tuesday 17 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what percentage of young people living in Enfield North constituency entered (a) higher education and (b) university in each of the last 11 years. (263915)

It is not possible to identify young people from Enfield, North who did not enter HE, therefore the percentage of young people from Enfield, North who entered HE cannot be calculated.

The number of young undergraduate entrants from Enfield, North is shown as an alternative. Figures for the 2008/09 academic year will be available in January 2010.

Young1 undergraduate entrants2 from Enfield, North parliamentary constituency3 by institution type UK higher education institutions4—academic years 1997/98 to 2007/08

Academic year

All HEIs5

Of which: Universities6

1997/98

305

280

1998/99

305

280

1999/2000

330

295

2000/01

365

325

2001/02

375

345

2002/03

435

400

2003/04

430

390

2004/05

515

490

2005/06

550

510

2006/07

545

515

2007/08

550

515

1 Young refers to undergraduates aged under 21.

2 Covers entrants to both full-time and part-time undergraduate courses.

3 Parliamentary constituency is defined by full and valid home postcodes.

4 Excludes the Open University due to inconsistencies in their coding of entrants over the time series.

5 All HEIs includes pre and post 1992 universities, HE colleges and independent HEIs.

6 Universities include both pre and post 1992 universities.

Note:

Figures are on a snapshot basis as at 1 December and have been rounded to the nearest five.

Source:

Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).