§ Mr. Damian GreenTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what estimate he has made of the number of non-UK, EU resident students who will apply to English universities in(a) 2006, (b) 2007, (c) 2008, (d) 2009 and (e) 2010. [97255]
§ Margaret Hodge[holding answer 11 February 2003]: Projections of applicants to English universities are not available centrally. The Department does, however, project the number of students, EU resident or otherwise, that attend English universities.
The projected number of non-UK, EU resident students attending English institutions from 2003–04 to 2005–06 is shown in the table. These are not very reliable figures because they are based on a number of assumptions, so should be treated with caution. Detailed projections for later years are not available.
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Non-UK, EU resident students attending English universities Thousand EU students 2003–04 71 2004–05 74 2005–06 77 1Numbers are on a headcount basis and include full and part-time students on undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Source:
DIES student numbers projection model.