HC Deb 20 October 1994 vol 248 cc294-5W
Ms Estelle Morris

To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many full-time students were registered in colleges of further education for each of the last five years, on a regional basis.

Mr. Boswell

The number of full-time students by region enrolled on courses in colleges of further education, for each of the last five academic years for which date are available, were as shown in the table.

Number of Full-Time Students in Colleges of Further Education England 1988–89–1992–93
Students on FE and HE Courses
thousands
Academic Year
Region 88–89 89–90 90–91 91–92 92–93
North 20 22 22 27 30
Yorkshire/Humberside 37 39 43 48 52
North West 56 59 64 70 75
East Midlands 27 29 32 37 41
West Midlands 41 42 46 55 61
East Anglia 13 13 15 18 20
Greater London 51 52 55 64 69
South East 72 77 83 99 108
South West 36 39 40 49 54
Total (England) 352 371 400 469 510

Ms Estelle Morris

To ask the Secretary of State for Education how many full-time students failed to complete courses in each of the last five years, on a regional basis.

Mr. Boswell

The number of further education students who do not complete their courses are not centrally recorded.

The wastage rates of full-time and sandwich students from first degree courses in former Universities Funding Council-funded United Kingdom universities and former English and Wales polytechnics are shown as follows:

Academic Year
1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92
Percentages 17 14 16 15 17

Source:

Table 14 (page 43) DFE Department Report (Cm 2510) published March 1994.

The proportions of students who left each of the former UFC-funded universities on successful completion of their full-time and sandwich first degree courses are published by the universities statistical record in "University Management Statistics and Performance Indicators". A copy of the 1993 edition is in the House Library.