HC Deb 13 November 2001 vol 374 cc707-10W
Helen Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of pupils entered higher education at 18(a) in authorities which retain grammar schools and (b) in authorities which are fully comprehensive, at the latest date for which figures are available. [11630]

Margaret Hodge

[holding answer 5 November 2001]: The latest available data on the proportion of 18-year-olds from each local education authority in England entering full-time undergraduate courses in the UK via the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) are given in the table. The student figures in the table are based on the home domicile of 18-year-olds, but it should be noted that pupils will not always attend a school or college in the same authority as the one in which they live.

English domiciled students aged 18 accepted to full-time

undergraduate courses in the UK via UCAS, autumn 2000 entry

Local education authority Population Acceptances Percentage
Barking and Dagenham 1,963 198 10.1
Barnet1 4,060 1,196 29.5
Barnsley 2,681 412 15.4
Bath and North East Somerset 2,061 405 19.7
Bedfordshire 4,714 1.131 24.0
Bexley1 2,620 472 18.0
Birmingham1 13,888 2.255 16.2
Blackburn with Darwen 1,959 384 19.6
Blackpool 1,574 263 16.7
Bolton 3,457 750 21.7
Bournemouth1 1,710 358 20.9
Bracknell Forest 1,315 272 20.7
Bradford 6,812 1.147 16.8
Brent 3,255 924 28.4
Brighton and Hove 2,686 341 12.7
Bromley1 3,189 929 29.1
Buckinghamshire1 6,089 1.760 28.9
Bury 2,306 578 25.1
Calderdale1 2,302 442 19.2
Cambridgeshire 7,148 1.397 19.5
Camden 2,150 364 16.9
Cheshire 7,963 2.432 30.5
City of Bristol 4,843 664 13.7
City of Derby 2,903 498 17.2
City of Kingston upon Hull 3,264 288 8.8
City of London 41 22 53.8
City of Westminster 2,347 295 12.6
Cornwall 5,854 1.298 22.2
Coventry 4,182 715 17.1
Croydon 4,065 1.013 24.9
Cumbria1 5,565 1.213 21.8
Darlington 1,257 243 19.3
Derbyshire 8,376 1.744 20.8
Devon1 8,347 1.676 20.1
Doncaster 3,761 585 15.6
Dorset 4,544 956 21.0
Dudley 3,587 744 20.7
Durham 6,568 1.106 16.8
Ealing 3,637 951 26.1
East Riding of Yorkshire 3,911 880 22.5
East Sussex 5,492 1.156 21.0
Enfield1 3,014 802 26.6
Essex1 15,281 3.241 21.2
Gateshead 2,496 423 16.9
Gloucestershire1 6,876 1.724 25.1
Greenwich 2,800 344 12.3
Hackney 2,447 285 11.6
Halton 1,733 238 13.7
Hammersmith and Fulham 1,520 251 16.5
Hampshire 15,553 3.442 22.1
Haringey 2,432 452 18.6
Harrow 2,750 963 53.0
Hartlepool 1,201 188 15.7
Havering 2,775 478 17.2
Herefordshire 1,982 503 25.4
Hertfordshire 11,947 3.250 27.2
Hillingdon 3,026 637 21.0
Hounslow 2,537 644 25.4
Isle of Wight 1,428 295 20.7
Isles of Scilly 28 4 14.3
Islington 1,917 298 15.5
Kensington and Chelsea 1,821 305 16.7
Kent1 15,954 3,575 22.4
Kingston upon Thames1 1,629 441 27.1
Kirklees1 4,952 1,025 20.7
Knowsley 2,213 266 12.0
Lambeth 2,840 412 14.5
Lancashire1 14,565 3,303 22.7
Leeds 8,831 1.567 17.7
Leicester City 3,870 689 17.8
Leicestershire 7,583 1.710 22.6

English domiciled students aged 18 accepted to full-time

undergraduate courses in the UK via UCAS, autumn 2000 entry

Local education authority Population Acceptances Percentage
Lewisham 2,800 446 15.9
Lincolnshire1 7,498 1,602 21.4
Liverpool 6,197 953 15,4
Luton 2,430 395 16.3
Manchester 6,327 693 11.0
Medway Towns1 3,125 543 17.4
Merton 1,944 439 22.6
Middlesbrough 2,056 340 16.5
Milton Keynes 2,855 497 17.4
Newbury 1,964 439 22.3
Newcastle upon Tyne 3,517 609 17.3
Newham 3,361 599 17.8
Norfolk 9,094 1,538 16.9
North East Lincolnshire 2,022 311 15.4
North Lincolnshire 1,896 397 20.9
North Somerset 2,242 492 21.9
North Tyneside 2,399 474 19.8
North Yorkshire1 7,295 1,826 25.0
Northamptonshire 7,768 1,524 19.6
Northumberland 3,814 946 24.8
Nottingham City 3,828 352 9.2
Nottinghamshire 8,861 1,813 20.5
Oldham 2,912 502 17.2
Oxfordshire 7,868 1,662 21.1
Peterborough 2,157 322 14.9
Plymouth1 3,556 513 14.4
Poole1 1,630 313 19.2
Portsmouth 2,306 269 11.7
Reading1 1,701 293 17.2
Redbridge1 2,884 895 31.0
Redcar and Cleveland 1,852 302 16.3
Richmond upon Thames 1,899 541 28.5
Rochdale 2,863 482 16.8
Rotherham 3,175 484 15.2
Rutland 690 113 16.4
Salford 2,781 353 12.7
Sandwell 3,686 474 12.9
Sefton 3,567 916 25.7
Sheffield 6,171 951 15.4
Shropshire 3,641 867 23.8
Slough1 1,394 304 21.8
Solihull 2,428 704 29.0
Somerset 5,949 1,264 21.2
South Gloucestershire 2,691 565 21.0
South Tyneside 1,950 330 16.9
Southampton 2,749 319 11.6
Southend1 1,990 346 17.4
Southwark 2,588 333 12.9
St. Helens 2,263 496 21.9
Staffordshire 9,818 2,256 23.0
Stockport 3,483 902 25.9
Stockton-on-Tees 2,481 550 22.2
Stoke on Trent1 3,101 382 12.3
Suffolk 7,816 1,657 21.2
Sunderland 3,812 572 15.0
Surrey 12,760 3,429 26.9
Sutton1 1,953 524 26.8
Swindon 2,157 376 17.4
Tameside 2,791 440 15.8
Telford and the Wrekin1 1,970 354 18.0
Thurrock 1,597 168 10.5
Torbay1 1,452 264 18.2
Tower Hamlets 2,565 341 13.3
Trafford1 2,710 699 25.8
Wakefield 3,863 610 15.8
Walsall1 3,227 560 17.4
Waltham Forest 2,549 514 20.2
Wandsworth 2,216 461 20.8
Warrington 2,252 506 22.5
Warwickshire1 5,937 1,360 22.9
West Sussex 8,422 1,808 21.5
Wigan 3,864 673 17.4
Wiltshire1 5,240 1,194 22.8
Windsor and Maidenhead 1,775 454 25.6
Wirral1 4,210 1,043 24.8
Wokingham 1,837 588 32.0

English domiciled students aged 18 accepted to full-time

undergraduate courses in the UK via UCAS, autumn 2000 entry

Local education authority Population Acceptances Percentage
Wolverhampton 3,193 625 19.6
Worcestershire 6,283 1,487 23.7
York 2,280 468 20.5
Not known 90
Total 606,687 123,708 20.4
1 Authorities with grammar schools

Note:

Population figures are based on estimates as at 1 January 2001, with age as at 31 August 2000. Acceptance figures based on age at 30 September 2000.

Chris Grayling

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many students are in full-time studies in universities in England and Wales. [12745]

Margaret Hodge

The available data are given in the table.

Full-time higher education students in England and Wales1,

2000–01

Number
Postgraduate 143,623
Undergraduate 933,265
Total 1,076,888
1Home and overseas students in HE and FE institutions, and the Open University