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Northern Ireland Office

Answer

Mr. Barnes: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if she will list the (a) numbers and (b) percentage of the total, of those studying in integrated schools in the (i) nursery, (ii) infant, (iii) junior, (iv) secondary, (v) further education, (vi) higher education and (vii) teacher training sectors of education in Northern Ireland; and if she will make a statement. [48298] Mr. Worthington: In the schools sector, only primary and secondary schools have integrated status. There are 3,846 pupils at integrated primary schools which represents 2.1% of total primary enrolments and 4,308 pupils at integrated secondary schools which represents 2.8% of total post-primary enrolments. The religious composition of students at further education college and universities is mixed. There are 85,669 enrolments at further education colleges and 39,178 enrolments at universities in Northern Ireland. There are 1,530 enrolments on initial teacher training courses in Northern Ireland. Of these, 25.4% are at universities where the religious composition is mixed. The remaining 74.6% are at: St. Mary's College, where the religious composition of enrolments is predominantly Roman Catholic, and Stranmillis College, where the religious composition of enrolments is predominantly Protestant.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

315 c421W; 48298

Session

1997-98

Subjects

Northern Ireland Population Schools Teachers Training Student numbers Integrated schools

Contains statistics

Yes