§ Ms Estelle MorrisTo 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. BoswellThe 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. 295W
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 MorrisTo 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. BoswellThe 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.