§ Ms KellyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what the social class breakdown was in 2000 of students who(a) applied for and (b) were successful in obtaining places on degree courses at British universities in (i) law, (ii) medicine, (iii) engineering, (iv) nursing, (v) BEd teaching, (vi) accountancy, (vii) veterinary studies and (viii) psychology. [148702]
§ Mr. Wicks[holding answer 7 February 2001]: The information is shown in the following table. 767W
Applicants1 and accepted applicants through UCAS to full-time and sandwich first-degree courses in the United Kingdom by social class and subject Social class Year of entry 2000 Professional Intermediate Skilled Skilled Partly skilled Unskilled Not known Grand total Accepted applicants Pre-clinical medicine 1,970 1,843 363 423 200 44 386 5,229 Nursing 251 1,218 358 380 419 36 536 3,198 Psychology 1,095 3,519 1,188 1,131 689 140 949 8,711 Veterinary science 163 276 51 42 12 2 49 595 Engineering2 2,077 4,608 1,917 1,280 1,003 181 1,455 12,521 Law 1,614 4,350 1,522 1,384 741 229 1,332 11,172 Accountancy 411 1,382 719 662 348 104 572 4,198 Education3 569 2,639 1,278 997 779 125 765 7,152 1 Each student can make up to six applications. In the table, applicants are counted once under each subject to which they applied. 2 Includes general, civil, mechanical, aeronautical, electrical, electronic, production/manufacturing and chemical engineering courses. 3 Includes courses with the Education Group that lead to Qualified Teacher Status.