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Northern Ireland Office

Answer

Mr. John D. Taylor: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what equal opportunity monitoring is conducted of students in universities in Northern Ireland; who is responsible for undertaking the monitoring; what are the proportions of Protestant and Catholic students at (a) the Queen's University, Belfast, (b) the University of Ulster at each of its campuses and (c) the Open University; and if she will make a statement. [45821] Mr. Worthington: The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), on behalf of the Department of Education Northern Ireland, gathers data on the gender, ethnicity, religion and disability of students in universities in Northern Ireland. The figures from the provisional 1997-98 data in respect of Northern Ireland domiciled students are as follows: Percentage _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Protestant Roman Catholic Other Missing data{1} Queen's University Belfast Full-time undergraduate 33 40 2 25 students who entered via UCAS University of Ulster at Belfast Full-time undergraduate and 42 42 6 11 postgraduate students (1st year) Part-time undergraduate and {2}-- 67 {2}-- {2}-- postgraduate students (1st year) University of Ulster at Coleraine Full-time undergraduate and 42 48 3 7 postgraduate students (1st Year) Part-time undergraduate and 33 44 {2}-- 20 postgraduate students (1st year) University of Ulster at Jordanstown Full-time undergraduate and 37 54 3 6 postgraduate students (1st year) Part-time undergraduate and 39 35 5 22 postgraduate students (1st year) University of Ulster at Magee Full-time undergraduate and 12 69 4 16 postgraduate students (1st year) Part-time undergraduate and 11 64 3 22 postgraduate students (1st year) _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} In these cases students have been asked the monitoring questions, but not answered {2} Percentage not given if based in fewer than 5 students Note: No religion data are collected on Open University students

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

315 c6W; 45821

Session

1997-98

Subjects

Northern Ireland Universities Religion Students

Contains statistics

Yes