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Nuclear Engineering: Higher Education

Volume 491: debated on Monday 20 April 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills pursuant to the answer of 10 February 2009, Official Report, column 1902W, on engineering: higher education, for how many (a) masters level and (b) doctoral nuclear engineering course places commencing in 2009 is funding available. (267002)

Data at the level of detail requested by this question are not collected centrally. The following table sets out the overall numbers of chemical, process and energy engineering students at English higher education institutions over the last five years which would include nuclear engineering students. Data for 2009 are not yet available.

Academic year

Masters

Doctorates

2003/04

935

605

2004/05

865

645

2005/06

870

630

2006/07

920

665

2007/08

725

865

Notes: 1. Figures are based on a HESA standard registration population and have been rounded to the nearest five. 2 Covers enrolments of all domiciles to both full-time and part-time courses. 3 Excludes the Open university due to inconsistencies in their coding of subject over the time series. Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).