§ Dr. Lynne JonesTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many graduates in each socio-economic group(a) deferred and (b) defaulted on their student loans in each of the last four years for which figures are available. [45748]
§ Dr. HowellsInformation on the socio-economic groups of borrowers of student loans is not collected centrally. Data on numbers of borrowers of student loans who were in deferment or default at the end of each financial year from the beginning of the scheme up to 1996–97 were published in Statistical Press Notice 391/97 on 26 November 1997. A copy of the Press Notice is in the Library.
The following has been extracted from that Press Notice:
the list, as it considers colleges are likely to substitute alternative qualifications or increase courses in other areas.
§ Mr. ChaytorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many Schedule 2A qualifications have been removed by the Further Education Funding Council for the year 1998–99. [45047]
§ Dr. Howells[holding answer 11 June 1998]: My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State approves vocational qualifications under Schedule 2(a) to the Further and Higher Education Act 1992. For the teaching year 1998–99, the approved list currently includes 1,767 individually listed titles, 1,442 fewer than in 1997–98, plus all NVQs, GNVQs, NVQ'D' units, GNVQ'GPA' units, Key Skill units and Language units. More titles will be added as satisfactory in-year applications are approved. Reductions in the list for 1998–99 arise from qualifications which have been withdrawn by awarding bodies, decisions by awarding bodies not to re-submit qualifications as well as decisions not to class qualifications in Schedule 2(a).
§ Mr. ChaytorTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment how many Schedule 2A qualifications were listed in 1997–98. [45045]
§ Dr. Howells[holding answer 11 June 1998]: 3,209 individually listed titles, plus all NVQs, GNVQs, NVQ'D' units, GNVQ'GPA' units, Key Skill units and Language units.