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Written question asked by Jim Cousins (Labour) on Friday, 24 February 2006, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 28 February 2006. It was answered by Bill Rammell (Labour) on Thursday, 2 March 2006 on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills.

University Students

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for South Holland and The Deepings (Mr. Hayes) of 2 February 2006, Official Report, columns 690–91W, on university students, what percentage of students from socio-economic classes four to seven there were in each higher education institution in the north east in 2003–04.
Answer

Information for higher education institutions is published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) in the annual publication "Performance Indicators in Higher Education". The latest available figures on the percentage of young full-time first degree entrants from National Statistics—Socio Economic Classes (NS-SEC) 4, 5, 6 and 7 are shown in the table.

Percentage of young full-time first degree entrants from National Statistics—Socio Economic Classes 4–7 at HE institutions in the north east 2003/04
HE institution Number of young full-time first degree entrants Percentage with known data Percentage from NS-SEC 4–7
University of Durham 3,480 92.9 15.8
University of Newcastle upon Tyne 3,595 91.6 20.9
University of Northumbria at Newcastle 4,050 82.6 31.2
University of Sunderland 2,355 83.5 39.0
University of Teeside 2,285 77.7 41.4
5: lower supervisory and technical occupations; 6: semi-routine occupations; 7: routine occupations. Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) ‘Performance Indicators in HE'
(15) 4: small employers and own account workers;

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
443 c865-6W;443 c865-6W; 54627
Session
2005-06
Related items
University Students
Thursday, 2 February 2006
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects
Admissions Higher education North East Universities Students Social class
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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