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Dept for Education and Skills

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Mr. Swire: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many students dropped out of (a) Oxford, (b) Cambridge, (c) Edinburgh, (d) St. Andrews, (e) Exeter and (f) Durham universities in each of the last seven years. [164801] Alan Johnson: The available information on drop-out rates can be found in the Higher Education Council for England (HEFCE) publication, "Performance Indicators in Higher Education in the UK". Copies of the publication can be found at: http://www.hefce.ac.uk/learning/perfind/ 2003/ The non-completion rates cover UK domiciled full- time students starting first degree courses who are projected to neither transfer nor achieve an award from their study. A benchmark is calculated for each institution which allows for the entry qualification of the students and the subject mix at the institution. Figures are given in the tables. Prior to this, non-completion rates were calculated by the Department for the UK as a whole, but not at individual institution level. Projected first degree non-completion rates, 1996/97 to 2000/01 Percentage _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Non-completion rate by those starting courses in: 1996/97 1997/98 1998/99 Institution Rate Benchmark Rate Benchmark Rate Benchmark University of Oxford 2 5 1 4 2 3 University of Cambridge 1 6 1 4 1 3 University of Edinburgh 6 10 9 9 10 9 University of St. 5 15 10 11 4 10 Andrews University of Exeter 7 12 7 11 7 10 University of Durham 3 8 6 9 5 8 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Percentage _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Non-completion rate by those starting courses in: 1999/2000 2000/01 Institution Rate Benchmark Rate Benchmark University of Oxford 2 3 2 3 University of Cambridge 1 4 1 3 University of Edinburgh 10 8 9 8 University of St. Andrews 3 9 7 9 University of Exeter 8 10 9 9 University of Durham 7 8 4 7 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Source: Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE).

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

420 c34-5W; 164801

Session

2003-04

Subjects

University of Cambridge Higher education University of Oxford Students University of Edinburgh Durham University Student wastage University of Exeter University of St Andrews

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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