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Higher Education: Admissions

Volume 496: debated on Wednesday 9 September 2009

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills pursuant to the answer of 19 May 2009, Official Report, columns 1330-31W, on higher education: admissions, how many applications for full-time undergraduate courses in England were (a) submitted and (b) accepted in each year since 1979; and how many such applicants were domiciled (i) outside the EU, (ii) in the EU but not in the UK and (iii) in the UK. (278875)

The information is in the tables. Comparable information, which separately identifies non-UK students applying to institutions in England, is not held centrally for years prior to 1994. Prior to the formation of UCAS in 1994, figures were published separately for the two admission systems, the Universities Central Council on Admissions (UCCA) and the Polytechnic and College Admission Service (PCAS), but they did not separately identify non-UK students applying to institutions in England.

Applicants to full-time undergraduate courses in England via UCAS 1994-2008

Domicile

UK

EU

Non-EU

Grand total

1994

326,412

15,514

20,070

361,996

1995

316,917

19,891

21,479

358,287

1996

308,769

21,342

22,906

353,017

1997

334,691

24,356

25,915

384,962

1998

327,000

22,080

25,462

374,542

1999

323,025

21,010

23,440

367,475

2000

321,696

18,628

24,949

365,273

2001

327,564

15,927

28,362

371,853

2002

326,894

14,610

34,000

375,504

2003

334,355

15,276

38,722

388,353

2004

339,434

16,298

43,897

399,629

2005

369,719

17,826

47,144

434,689

2006

355,567

23,729

37,434

416,730

2007

376,177

26,872

39,435

442,484

2008

414,817

27,600

43,135

485,552

Source:

UCAS

Accepted applicants to full-time undergraduate courses in England via UCAS 1994-2008

Domicile

UK

EU

Non-EU

Grand total

1994

207,907

5,981

9,600

223,488

1995

218,596

8,825

11,241

238,662

1996

218,998

10,978

11,771

241,747

1997

251,535

13,711

14,374

279,620

1998

245,839

13,028

13,851

272,718

1999

250,360

12,742

14,411

277,513

2000

253,915

11,458

15,274

280,647

2001

268,570

9,593

18,342

296,505

2002

273,257

9,149

22,069

304,475

2003

274,983

9,400

24,788

309,171

2004

274,507

9,561

27,105

311,173

2005

299,288

9,904

28,298

337,490

2006

287,409

14,288

23,557

325,254

2007

304,796

16,008

24,377

345,181

2008

340,879

16,195

25,472

382,546

Note:

UCAS applicant data. The applicant figures cover applicants submitting one or more applications to an English institution (in 1994/95 each applicant could submit up to eight applications; this was reduced to six from 1995/96, and to five from 2008/09). Students in this table applying to English institutions may also have applied to institutions in one or more of the other home countries, and some may have been accepted to institutions in those countries. In 2008 the Nursing and Midwifery Admissions System (NMAS) was subsumed in to the UCAS application system and part of the increase from 2007 to 2008 can be attributed this factor. There were 14,184 applicants who were accepted to former NMAS courses, the majority of whom were English domiciled (and NMAS was only for English institutions).

Source:

UCAS

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills what proportion of residents in (a) Hemel Hempstead constituency, (b) Dacorum, (c) Hertfordshire, (d) the South East and (e) England entered university in each of the last 10-years. (284316)

The Government does 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 residents in Hemel Hempstead constituency, Dacorum, Hertfordshire and the South East entered university in each of the last ten years.

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 local education authority (LEA) for the years 1997 to 2000.

At national level, the higher education initial participation rate (HEIPR) covers English-domiciled 17-30 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.

The numbers of all-aged entrants to higher education from Hemel Hempstead constituency, Dacorum, Hertfordshire, the South East and England, in each of the last ten years, are shown as an alternative in the tables. Figures for the 2008/09 academic year will be available in January 2010.

Entrants1 from Hemel Hempstead constituency2, Dacorum census district2 Hertfordshire local authority2, the South East Government Office Region2 and England UK higher education institutions3 : Academic years 1998/99 to 2007/08

Academic year

Hemel Hempstead

Dacorum

Hertfordshire

South East

England

1998/99

735

1,220

10,215

79,235

516,930

1999/2000

740

1,225

10,615

80,220

515,565

2000/01

845

1,340

11,045

80,705

516,750

2001/02

900

1,420

11,395

85,095

548,000

2002/03

865

1,385

11,620

86,875

570,695

2003/04

935

1,420

13,315

87,645

578,790

2004/05

860

1,410

11,940

90,500

579,200

2005/06

970

1,545

12,215

92,340

598,745

2006/07

855

1,365

11,585

87,305

575,085

2007/08

910

1,495

12,015

88,705

589,055

1 Covers postgraduate and undergraduate entrants to both full-time and part-time courses.

2 The table does not include entrants where the parliamentary constituency, local authority area, census district and Government Office Region of the student cannot be established due to missing or invalid home postcodes.

3 Excludes the Open University due to inconsistencies in their coding of entrants over 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)