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Higher Education: Student Numbers

Volume 495: debated on Wednesday 1 July 2009

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many full-time, UK-domiciled undergraduate students there are in each of the teaching and learning price bands used by the Higher Education Funding Council for England. (282844)

In 2007-08 the estimated number of UK domiciled full-time undergraduate students, including both those fundable and non-fundable by HEFCE in each of their price bands are as follows:

Number

Group A

22,264

Group B

150,525

Group C

408,805

Group D

271,538

In addition there are 22,128 students meeting the criteria of the question in Initial Teacher Training which is not assigned to a price group. Figures are for England only.