§ Mr. LlwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what percentage of students had term-time, part-time jobs during each of the last five years. [149458]
§ Mr. WicksData from the Department's Student Income and Expenditure Survey show that about half of full-time higher education students had term-time jobs in 1995–96 and in 1998–99. Data for the intervening and more recent years are not available from the survey.
A Further Education Funding Council survey of students in further education colleges undertaken in the summer of 1998 found that 73 per cent. of young full-time students (aged 16 to 18) and 41 per cent. of older full-time students worked during term-time.