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Higher Education: Cambridgeshire

Volume 494: debated on Wednesday 24 June 2009

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Mr. Vara

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many students resident in North West Cambridgeshire constituency were in higher education in each of the last 10 years. (281160)

Mr. Lammy

The latest available information from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) is shown in the following table. Figures for the 2008/09 academic year will be available in January 2010.

Enrolments1 from North West Cambridgeshire parliamentary constituency2 UK higher education institutions—Academic years 1998/99 to 2007/08

Academic year

North West Cambridgeshire enrolments

1998/99

2,250

1999/2000

2,380

2000/01

2,390

2001/02

2,515

2002/03

2,510

2003/04

2,850

2004/05

2,965

2005/06

2,985

2006/07

2,740

2007/08

2,930

1 Covers undergraduate and postgraduate students enrolled on full-time and part-time courses.

2 Parliamentary constituency is defined by full and valid home postcodes recorded on the HESA student record.

Note:

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

Source:

Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)