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Higher Education

Volume 496: debated on Wednesday 9 September 2009

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many additional student places have been provided by the Higher Education Funding Council for England in each year since 1992. (288583)

Table 1 shows full-time equivalent (FTE) student numbers allocated through HEFCE’s main Additional Student Number (ASN) exercises for the years 1998 to 2009. Figures prior to 1998 are not included because places were allocated under a different system.

Table 1: Additional student numbers (ASNs) allocated by HEFCE from 1998-1999 to 2009-10

Fully-funded

Co-funded

Total

2009-10

10,000

7,100

17,100

2008-09

13,900

5,000

18,900

2007-08

26,500

1,600

28,100

2006-07

21,300

200

21,500

2005-06

16,500

0

16,500

2004-05

18,500

0

18,500

2003-04

18,300

0

18,300

2002-03

17,600

0

17,600

2001-02

22,200

0

22,200

2000-01

19,600

0

19,600

1999-2000

31,300

0

31,300

1998-1999

9,600

0

9,600

Notes:

Figures are rounded to the nearest 100 FTE.

The table includes fully-funded ASNs as well as those co-funded by employers fully-funded ASNs include: increases in intakes to undergraduate medicine and dentistry courses; FTEs to support diversification out of Initial Teacher Training; Prototype Foundation Degrees (awarded 2001-02 to 2004-05).

Where ASNs are co-funded, the FTEs to be delivered have been included rather than the fully-funded figures.