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Higher Education: Birmingham

Volume 491: debated on Monday 27 April 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what percentage of school leavers resident in (a) Birmingham Hall Green constituency and (b) Birmingham entered higher education in each of the last 10 years. (270036)

The Government do not collect data on the number of school leavers who do not go on to higher education who are resident in a particular area, so it is not possible to calculate the percentage of school leavers for Hall Green constituency and Birmingham local authority who do go on to higher education.

The number of 18-year-old undergraduate entrants from Hall Green constituency and Birmingham local authority are shown as an alternative in the following table.

18-year-old undergraduate entrants1 from Hall Green Constituency2 and Birmingham local authority,2 UK higher education institutions3

18-year-old entrants

Academic year

Hall Green

Birmingham

1998/99

190

2,035

1999/2000

190

2,220

2000/01

185

2,215

2001/02

215

2,345

2002/03

225

2,550

2003/04

245

2,570

2004/05

270

2,595

2005/06

250

2,785

2006/07

250

2,675

2007/08

260

2,700

1 Covers entrants studying both full-time and part-time courses.

2 Parliamentary constituency and local authority are defined by full and valid home postcodes, returned by the student to HESA.

3 Excludes the open university due to inconsistencies in their coding of entrants across the time series.

Notes:

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

Source:

Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).