§ Mr. EvansTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage of students leaving secondary school in Ribble Valley(a) went straight to university and (b) deferred university entrance for one or two years between 1994 and 2000. [132728]
§ Mr. Wicks[holding answer 26 July 2000]There is only one secondary school in the Ribble Valley constituency which has a sixth-form containing potential applicants to higher education. The Department's policy does not routinely allow the release of data for individual schools unless schools have been given the opportunity to confirm or amend their data, and there has been prior ministerial approval for such releases. UCAS do not release data without the prior permission of the school. In any case, it is not possible to make unequivocal links for individual students between school-based and UCAS data.