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Higher Education

Volume 502: debated on Wednesday 16 December 2009

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Jeff Ennis

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many students from Barnsley East and Mexborough constituency attended university courses in each year since 1996-97. (307161)

Mr. Lammy

The latest information is provided in the table. Figures for the 2008/09 academic year will be available in January.

Enrolments1 from Barnsley East and Mexborough constituency2 UK higher education institutions3—Academic years 1996/97 to 2007/08

Academic year

Enrolments

1996/97

740

1997/98

860

1998/99

1,050

1999/2000

970

2000/01

1,025

2001/02

1,120

2002/03

1,150

2003/04

1,125

2004/05

1,145

2005/06

1,170

2006/07

1,150

2007/08

1,145

1 Covers undergraduate and postgraduate students of all ages enrolled on full-time and part-time courses

2 The table does not include enrolments where the constituency of the student cannot be established due to missing or invalid information.

3 Excludes the Open university due to inconsistencies in their coding of students across the time series.

Note:

Figures are on a snapshot basis as at 1 December and are rounded to the nearest five.

Source:

Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).