To ask Her Majesty's Government how many private students from (a) India, (b) Pakistan, and (c) Bangladesh came to the United Kingdom to study in (1) universities, and (2) colleges of further and higher education, in each of the last five years. [HL5267]

The department does not hold information separating private from non-private overseas students attending UK higher education institutions (HEIs) or English further education colleges.

Table 1 contains figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) on entrants to UK HEIs from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Figures for the 2008-09 academic year will be available in January 2010.

Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).

Notes: Figures are based on a HESA standard registration population and have been rounded to the nearest five. (1) Covers entrants to all levels of study and both full-time and part-time courses. (2) Excludes the Open University due to inconsistencies in their coding of entrants across the time series.

Table 2 shows the number of learners participating in further education provision in 2003-04 to 2007-08 whose country of domicile is India, Pakistan or Bangladesh.

Source: FE Individualised Learner Record.

Notes:

1) Numbers are rounded to the nearest hundred.

2) Further Education Provision includes General Further Education Colleges including Tertiary, Sixth Form Colleges, Special Colleges—Agricultural and Horticultural Colleges and Art and Design Colleges, Specialist Colleges and External Institutions.

3) Data include both LSC funded and non-LSC funded learners for whom providers have made returns on the Individualised Learner Record.

4) This information is based on Country of Domicile—institutions are advised that the Country of Domicile should be treated as a self-assessment field and reflect the country where the learner was ordinarily resident for the three years preceding the start of their programme.