The Government do not collect data on the number of people resident in a particular area who are not in higher education. Therefore, it is not possible to calculate what proportion of people resident in North West Cambridgeshire constituency, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, the East of England, or Huntingdonshire entered university in each of the last 10 years.
The numbers of entrants to higher education from North West Cambridgeshire constituency, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough, the East of England, Huntingdonshire and England, in each of the last 10 years, are shown as an alternative in the tables.
Figures for the 2008-09 academic year will be available in January 2010.
Academic year North West Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire Peterborough 1998-99 795 5,775 1,215 1999-2000 810 5,945 1,175 2000-01 725 5,555 1,120 2001-02 885 6,040 1,245 2002-03 865 6,045 1,195 2003-04 930 6,100 1,280 2004-05 955 6,365 1,395 2005-06 955 6,305 1,300 2006-07 875 6,225 1,205 2007-08 1,035 5,530 1,395 1 Covers undergraduate and postgraduate entrants to full-time and part-time courses. 2 Parliamentary constituency and local authority are 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).
Academic year East of England Huntingdonshire England 1998-99 47,510 1,415 516,930 1999-2000 48,655 1,505 515,565 2000-01 48,740 1,350 516,750 2001-02 52,035 1,535 548,000 2002-03 52,915 1,525 570,695 2003-04 54,695 1,555 578,790 2004-05 54,295 1,505 579,200 2005-06 55,295 1,540 598,745 2006-07 52,905 1,575 575,085 2007-08 55,590 1,590 589,055 1 Covers undergraduate and postgraduate entrants to full-time and part-time courses. 2 Government region and census district are 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).
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) published ‘Young participation in higher education’ in January 2005, which is available from the HEFCE website at
http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/hefce/2005/05_03/
The HEFCE report shows participation rates for young people who enter higher education aged 18 or 19 disaggregated by parliamentary constituency, local education authority and region for the years 1997 to 2000.
At national level, the Higher Education Initial Participation Rate (HEIPR) covers English-domiciled 17 to 30-year-old first-time entrants to higher education courses, at UK higher education institutions and English, Scottish and Welsh further education colleges, who remain on their course for at least six months. The latest available figure is 43 per cent. in 2007-08.