§ Ms SquireTo ask the Secretary of State for Scotland how many and what proportion of young people in each constituency in Scotland went on to further and higher education in each year since 1997. [152466]
§ Mrs. Liddell[holding answer 12 March 2001]The information is not available in the format requested. The table details for each local authority area in Scotland the number of young people, also shown by proportion, who have entered into vocational further and higher education in 1997–98 to 1998–99. Further and higher education in Scotland have been devolved since July 1999.
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Scottish domiciled entrants, aged under 21, to vocational further and higher education [...]n Scotland, 1997–98 to 1998–991 Population of Percentage Students at HEIs and FECs Total HE FE 16–21 year olds2 in HE and FE 1998–99 Total 141,775 41,618 100,157 383,648 37 Aberdeenshire 7,050 2,565 4,485 16,274 43 Angus 3,370 1,602 1,768 7,352 46 Argyll and Bute 1,724 740 984 6,167 28 City of Aberdeen 5,193 1,959 3,234 17,703 29 City of Dundee 4,824 498 4,326 12,478 39 City of Edinburgh 14,059 2,791 11,268 35,689 39 City of Glasgow 18,117 4,427 13,690 50,674 36 Clackmannanshire 1,367 407 960 3,121 44 Dumfries and Galloway 2,869 834 2,035 9,024 32 East Ayrshire 2,351 849 1,502 8,189 29 East Dunbartonshire 2,351 1,265 1,086 8,585 27 East Lothian 2,660 500 2,160 5,854 45 East Renfrewshire 1,883 949 934 6,552 29 Falkirk 3,418 1,047 2,371 10,078 34 Fife 13,779 3,120 10,659 26,462 52 Highland 5,572 1,897 3,675 13,893 40 Inverclyde 2,778 779 1,999 6,228 45 Midlothian 2,895 504 2,391 6,120 47 Moray 2,180 632 1,548 6,309 35 North Ayrshire 3,368 1,227 2,141 10,572 32 North Lanarkshire 6,812 2,521 4,291 25,947 26 Orkney 721 176 545 1,195 60 Perth and Kinross 2,916 1,076 1,840 8,566 34 Renfrewshire 6,372 1,578 4,794 12,669 50 Scottish Borders 3,227 854 2,373 6,323 51 Shetland 457 203 254 1,715 27 South Ayrshire 2,288 969 1,319 8,370 27 South Lanarkshire 5,860 2,696 3,1[...]4 23,111 25 Stirling 1,989 701 1,288 7,787 26 West Dunbartonshire 652 386 266 7,383 9 West Lothian 6,838 1,132 5,706 11,385 60 Western Isles 1,448 347 1,101 1,873 77 Scotland Unknown 387 387 0 n/a n/a 1A student may be enrolled on more than one course 2Taken from 1996 GRO population projections 3Taken from 1998 GRO population estimates