§ Jeff EnnisTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many people entered higher education from(a) Doncaster, (b) Barnsley and (c) South Yorkshire in each year since 1997. [101697]
§ Margaret HodgeThe latest available information is shown in the table.
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Accepted applicants to full-time and sandwich undergraduate course by area of home residence Year of entry Students from: 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Doncaster 991 1,000 1,036 1,005 1,180 1,070 Barnsley 685 732 751 836 856 776 South Yorkshire1 5,168 4,833 4,803 4,965 5,321 5,237 1 Includes students from Doncaster, Barnsley, Sheffield and Rotherham. Source:
Universities and Colleges Admissions Service.
§ Mr. BoswellTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what research studies are available to her Department on the educational value added of higher education courses, classified by type of secondary school attended by the student and broken down into(a) independent schools, (b) state grammar schools, (c) other state selection schools and (d) comprehensive schools, and assessed for (i) individual institutions, (ii) individual years of tertiary study and (iii) completed first degree courses. [104100]
§ Margaret Hodge[holding answer 24 March 2003]: Research that looks at the educational value added of higher education courses, classified by type of secondary school attended by the student includes:
Schooling Effects on Subsequent University Performance: Evidence for the UK University Population" 2002 Robin Naylor and Jeremy Smith University of Warwick Working Paper;Determinants of individual degree performance in UK universities: with particular reference to Economics" 1999 Robin Naylor and Jeremy Smith University of Warwick;Gender Differences in Educational Attainment: The Case of University Students in England and Wales" 2002 Robert McNabb, Sarmistha Pal and Peter Sloane Economica; andInterim findings on the effects of school performance on higher education achievement" HEFCE presented at UUK's Fair Enough conference January 2003. A fuller report will be published later this year.This research shows that, on average, individuals that attend state schools do as well at university, for example, in terms of class of degree, as individuals who do better at A-level but attend Independent schools.
The Department is not aware of research that looks at how the educational value added of higher education by school type varies by institution or by years of tertiary education. However, some universities have conducted their own research in this field. For example, research at Bristol University found that on the whole, of all the students who entered the University of Bristol with excellent A levels, those who came from weaker schools gained better degrees than the students from stronger schools ("School Performance and the Likelihood of getting into Bristol" by Jeff Odell in 1999).
§ Mr. Damian GreenTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the levels of participation in higher education were in each education authority in(a) 1980, (b) 1990 and (c) 2000. [102425]
§ Margaret HodgeI refer the hon. Member to the reply given to my right hon. Friend the Member for Tyneside, North (Mr. Byers) on 3 February 2003,Official Report, column 95W, which contains the available data on HE participation for each LEA since 1994. Comparable figures for earlier years are not available centrally.