§ Mr. PikeTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many 18 to 25-year-olds left university without finishing their courses in the last three years. [150651]
§ Mr. WicksThe latest "Performance Indicators in Higher Education", published by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, give an overall non-completion rate for students starting full-time first degree courses in the UK in 1997–98 of 17 per cent., a figure which has stayed roughly constant since 1991–92. It is not possible to disaggregate the relevant data by age.