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Dept for Education and Skills

Answer

Mr. McLoughlin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of (a) GCSE and (b) sixth form students have continued to higher education in (i) West Derbyshire, (ii) the East Midlands of England and (iii) England in each year since 1990. [198362] Dr. Howells: The available information on participation rates by region shows the proportion of 18-year-olds entering full-time undergraduate courses in the UK via the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCASJ, and is given in the table. Comparable figures for the years prior to 1994 are not available centrally. It should be noted that the proportions in the table are based only on the number of 18-year-olds entering full-time HE. This is a different definition to the Department's main measures of HE participation: the Age Participation Index (API), which measures the proportion of UK domiciled students who enter full- time HE by the age of 20, and the Higher Education Initial Participation Rate (HEIPR) which measures the proportion of 17-30 year old English domiciled first time entrants to full or part-time HE. Neither the API nor the HEIPR are calculated for each LEA, because of the lack of detailed data at local authority level. Proportion of 18-year-olds entering full-time undergraduate courses via UCAS _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Students from: Year of entry Derbyshire1 East Midlands2 England 1994 16.1 17 17.9 1995 16.2 19 19.5 1996 17.6 19 19.9 1997 19.1 20 20.5 1998 19.9 19 20.0 1999 19.9 19 20.0 2000 20.4 20 20.6 2001 21.9 21 21.5 2002 22.5 21 22.0 2003 21.9 21 21.4 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Derbyshire excludes Derby LEA from 1997. 2 Covers the local education authorities of Derby, Derbyshire, Leicester, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and Rutland.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

198362; 426 c2119-20W;426 c2125-6W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Admissions Higher education East Midlands Students Sixth form colleges Student numbers Derbyshire GCSE

Link

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