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Higher Education: Tamworth

Volume 497: debated on Wednesday 14 October 2009

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many pupils in Tamworth constituency entered higher education in each year since 1997; and what estimate he has made of the number of such pupils entering higher education in (a) 2009, (b) 2010 and (c) 2011. (291460)

The Government do not make forward estimates of the number of students entering higher education disaggregated at a constituency level.

The numbers of 18-year-old undergraduate entrants to UK higher education institutions from Tamworth constituency, in each year since 1997, are shown in the table. Figures for the 2008/09 academic year will be available from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) in January 2010.

18-year-old undergraduate entrants1 from Tamworth constituency2, UK higher education institutions3, academic years 1997/98 to 2007/08

Academic year

Number

1997/98

145

1998/99

210

1999/2000

220

2000/01

210

2001/02

215

2002/03

220

2003/04

240

2004/05

195

2005/06

215

2006/07

270

2007/08

235

1 Covers entrants to full-time and part-time courses. 2 The table does not include entrants where the parliamentary constituency of the student cannot be established due to missing or invalid home postcodes. 3 Excludes the Open university due inconsistencies in their coding of entrants across the time series. Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).