§ Mr. RendelTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, pursuant to her answers of 18 March 2002,Official Report, columns 113–14W, on higher education, if she will provide a further breakdown of the participation in higher education for each year group of those aged between 18 and 30, showing the percentage attending (a) full-time and (b) part-time and (i) degree and (ii) sub-degree courses of higher education. [60453]
§ Margaret Hodge[holding answer 10 June 2002]: The individual year of age entry rates for 2000–01 broken down by mode of study are shown in the table.
Percentage Age1 Full-time entry rate2 Part-time entry rate2 Overall initial entry rate2 183 19.9 0.5 20.5 19 9.5 0.5 10.0 20 2.2 0.5 2.7 21 1.1 0.4 1.5 22 0.7 0.4 1.1 23 0.5 0.4 0.9 24 0.4 0.4 0.7 25 0.3 0.3 0.7 26 0.3 0.4 0.6 27 0.3 0.4 0.6 28 0.2 0.3 0.6 29 0.2 0.3 0.6 30 0.2 0.3 0.5 Total4 36.0 5.0 41.0 1 Age as at 31 August 2000. 2 HE entrants in 2000–01 as a percentage of separate age population; excludes entrants with previous HE experience and excludes courses of less than one year duration. The overall IER is the sum of the unrounded full-time and part-time initial entry rates, calculated using student records collected by HESA and LSC, and ONS population estimates. Note: as a result of the 2001 Census, the ONS are intending to release revised population estimates by early 2003. This could result in some changes to the figures shown in this table. 3 Includes a small number of entrants aged 17. 4 The individual rates are rounded to the nearest 0.1 per cent. and so do not sum exactly to the totals which are rounded to the nearest whole number. Breakdowns of the initial entry rate by level of undergraduate course are not available. For the purposes of the IER calculation no distinction is made between initial entrants to first degree or other undergraduate courses of at least one year duration.