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Higher Education: Admissions

Volume 504: debated on Tuesday 26 January 2010

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Mr. Hepburn

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many people normally resident in (a) Jarrow constituency, (b) South Tyneside, (c) the North East and (d) nationwide enrolled at university in each year since 2007-08. (313483)

Mr. Lammy

The latest available information from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) is provided in the table.

Enrolments1 from Jarrow constituency2, South Tyneside local authority2, the north-east of England Government office region2 and England: UK higher education institutions, academic years 2007/08 and 2008/09

Academic year

Jarrow

South Tyneside

North-east

England

2007/08

2,170

3,870

78,995

1,610,605

2008/09

2,285

4,040

82,245

1,669,985

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, local authority and Government office region of the student cannot be established due to missing or invalid postcode information.

Note:

Figures are based on a HESA Standard Registration Population and rounded to the nearest five.

Source:

Higher Education Statistics Agency