§ Mr. ShawTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what was the percentage of 16 year olds in(a) Kent schools and (b) schools in other shire counties in the year 1996–97 who entered higher education. [48820]
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§ Dr. HowellsAvailable information on higher education participation rates of 16 to 19 year olds from Kent, other shire counties and the whole of England is given in the following table.
Entrants to higher education courses at UK higher education institutions in 1997–98 by age and region of domicile and as a proportion of the regional population Domicile Age1 Entrants Population2 Proportion (per cent.) Kent 16 1 19,729 0 17 49 19,603 0 18 3,729 18,724 20 19 1,733 16,984 10 Other Shire Counties3 16 24 368,704 0 17 908 371,891 0 18 73,076 357,310 20 19 34,136 325,028 11 England 16 55 611,215 0 17 1,517 621,690 0 18 118,009 605,296 19 19 57,688 558,083 10 1Age as at 31 August 1997 2Populations at 1 January 1998, by age at 31 August 1997. Based on projections from the Government Actuary's Department and the Office for National Statistics 3Includes the following regions as they existed prior to local government reorganisation in 1997: Avon, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Cleveland, Cornwall, Cumbria, Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Durham, East Sussex, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Hereford and Worcester, Hertfordshire, Humberside, Isle of Wight, Lancashire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, North Yorkshire, Northamptonshire, Northumberland, Nottinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Shropshire, Somerset, Staffordshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Warwickshire, West Sussex, Wiltshire