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Dept for Education and Employment

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Ms Kelly: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will list for each year since 1990 the (a) number and (b) percentage of applicants who attended maintained schools, for degree courses at British universities in (i) law, (ii) medicine, (iii) engineering, (iv) nursing, (v) BEd teaching, (vi) accountancy, (vii) veterinary studies and (viii) psychology. [142046] Mr. Wicks: Information for the years 1990 to 1994 is not available centrally. The available information is shown in the following table. Numbers and percentages of applicants{ 1} through UCAS to full-time and sandwich first degree courses in the United Kingdom by previous school type and subject of study _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Year of entry 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 Numbers Maintained schools{ 2} Pre-clinical Medicine 3,610 3,511 3,654 3,657 3,406 Nursing 1,537 1,547 1,574 1,693 1,796 Psychology 8,859 9,159 9,183 9,206 9,367 Veterinary studies 579 581 637 629 757 Engineering{3} 10,268 9,504 9,426 9,639 9,897 Law 6,603 6,439 6,598 7,053 7,482 Accountancy 4,570 4,347 4,574 4,688 4,741 Education{4} 15,787 14,553 9,138 8,326 7,441 Independent schools Pre-clinical Medicine 2,808 2,906 2,919 2,852 2,635 Nursing 218 220 198 176 190 Psychology 2,224 2,186 2,139 2,027 2,000 Veterinary studies 344 348 355 366 380 Engineering{3} 2,954 2,713 2,727 2,565 2,526 Law 2,168 1,979 2,086 2,002 2,005 Accountancy 775 758 777 823 805 Education{4} 1,993 1,856 857 795 644 Other establishment{ 5} Pre-clinical Medicine 2,369 2,348 2,181 1,887 1,561 Nursing 2,755 2,650 2,818 2,579 2,689 Psychology 14,343 13,464 13,075 11,346 10,241 Veterinary studies 286 339 313 327 336 Engineering{3} 10,376 9,095 8,685 7,864 7,616 Law 8,261 7,883 8,137 7,614 7,332 Accountancy 4,763 4,219 4,088 3,972 3,714 Education{4} 19,858 17,957 10,737 8,803 7,838 Percentages{ 6} Maintained schools{ 2} Pre-clinical Medicine 41.1 40.1 41.7 43.6 44.8 Nursing 34.1 35.0 34.3 38.1 38.4 Psychology 34.8 36.9 37.6 40.8 43.3 Veterinary studies 47.9 45.8 48.8 47.6 51.4 Engineering{3} 43.5 44.6 45.2 48.0 49.4 Law 38.8 39.5 39.2 42.3 44.5 Accountancy 45.2 46.6 48.5 49.4 51.2 Education{4} 41.9 42.3 44.1 46.5 46.7 Independent schools Pre-clinical Medicine 32.0 33.2 33.3 34.0 34.7 Nursing 4.8 5.0 4.3 4.0 4.1 Psychology 8.7 8.8 8.8 9.0 9.3 Veterinary studies 28.5 27.4 27.2 27.7 25.8 Engineering{3} 12.5 12.7 13.1 12.8 12.6 Law 12.7 12.1 12.4 12.0 11.9 Accountancy 7.7 8.1 8.2 8.7 8.7 Education{4} 5.3 5.4 4.1 4.4 4.0 Other establishment{ 5} Pre-clinical Medicine 27.0 26.8 24.9 22.5 20.5 Nursing 61.1 60.0 61.4 58.0 57.5 Psychology 56.4 54.3 53.6 50.3 47.4 Veterinary studies 23.7 26.7 24.0 24.7 22.8 Engineering{3} 44.0 42.7 41.7 39.2 38.0 Law 48.5 48.4 48.4 45.7 43.6 Accountancy 47.1 45.2 43.3 41.9 40.1 Education{4} 52.8 52.3 51.8 49.1 49.2 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Since 1996 each student has been able to make up to six applications; in 1995 each student could make up to eight applications. In the tables, applicants are counted once under each subject to which they applied. {2} Defined as sixth form centres, Comprehensive schools, Grammar schools and other secondary schools. {3} Includes general, civil, mechanical, aeronautical, electrical, electronic, production/manufacturing and chemical engineering courses. {4} Includes courses within the Education Group that lead to Qualified Teacher Status. Includes Physical Education courses in 1995 and 1996 but not in subsequent years. Since 1997 Physical Education has been available only in combination with other subjects, and combined courses are not included in the table. {5} Includes Further and Higher Education {6} The percentage of applicants excluding those with unknown previous school type.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

360 c388-90W; 142046

Session

2000-01

Subjects

Accountancy Law Engineering Nurses Medicine Universities Schools Teachers Student numbers Psychology Veterinary medicine

Contains statistics

Yes

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