§ Mr. RookerTo ask the Secretary of State for Education what are the reasons for ceasing to list separately those going into temporary employment in table 16 of his latest departmental report Cm 2510 regarding destinations of full-time and sandwich graduates on first degree courses.
§ Mr. Boswell[holding answer 12 April 1994]: The information on graduates in temporary or short-term employment, subsumed within table 16 of the departmental report Cm 2510 for reasons of simplicity and brevity, is shown in the table.
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Sources: DFE survey exam results and first destination Universities' statistical record.
Destination of full-time and sandwich graduates1 on first degree courses, England Percentage Academic year 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 Employment 60 58 52 45 42 Temporary employment2 4 5 6 6 7 Overseas employment3 3 3 3 3 3 Further education/training4 19 19 20 22 23 Overseas graduates leaving United Kingdom 5 5 5 7 7 Not available for employment 4 5 6 5 5 Believed unemployed 6 5 8 12 13 Total whose destination was known (thousands) 85 85 90 96 104 Not known (thousands) 13 15 15 16 16 Total (thousands) 99 101 106 112 121 1 Destination in the December following graduation. Excludes Open university students. 2 Students reporting entering employment which will last for three months or less and due to end during the first three months of the calendar year following graduation. 3 Home students. 4 Includes teacher training. 5 Includes not available because of having a fixed offer or acceptance of a place on another course, involved in portfolio preparation, taking time out, pregnancy/maternity/paternity, age past retirement, health and death. Comparable data for graduates from Great Britain institutions were published in March 1993 in tables 4 to 7 of Statistical Bulletin 7/93, a copy of which has been placed in the Library, and figures for those graduating in academic year 1991–92 consistent with table 16 will be available shortly.
The destination surveys conducted by the "Universities Statistical Record" and the Department are intended to collect the first destination of graduates at or around the end of the calendar year in which they graduate. In many cases those graduates reporting their first destination as short-term employment continue in employment at the end of that period.
Full-time and sandwich higher education students in England enrolled on two year diploma and three and four year first degree courses 1988–89 to 1992–93 (Figures in brackets are percentage of all students) (000s) 1998–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 Two-year diplomas 20.6 (12) 21.2 (11) 25.0 (11) 30.0 (12) 36.1 (12) Three-year degrees 82.8 (48) 93.1 (48) 104.2 (48) 120.6 (47) 141.9 (48) Four-year degrees 38.6 (22) 46.1 (24) 51.6 (24) 61.7 (24) 70.2 (24)
§ Mr. RookerTo ask the Secretary of State for Education what percentage of full-time undergraduates in English higher education institutions are on four-year courses.
§ Mr. Boswell[holding answer 12 April 1994]: In the academic year 1992–93, 24 per cent. of all full-time undergraduates, including sandwich students, in English higher education institutions were enrolled on four-year courses.
Sources: DFE surveys Further Education Student Record, Form 618G and Annual Monitoring Survey, Universities' Statistical Record, PCFC surveys PARISS and Staff Record.
1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 Universities (Great Britain) 10.3 10.7 11.3 11.9 13.3 PCFC institutions — — — 15.3 17.1 LEA institutions1 12.0 11.3 11.8 8.2 9.1 1 Includes institutions that transferred to the PCFC in 1989 for all years up to and including 1989–90.