HC Deb 18 November 2003 vol 413 cc782-3W
Mr. Jon Owen Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many non-European Union students registered for courses in(a) further education colleges and (b) universities in each of the last five years for which figures are available. [131723]

Alan Johnson

The latest available figures are in the table.

Number of non-European Union overseas students, studying in

English FE colleges and HE institutions
Thousand
FEcolleges1
Academic year Council funded Non-Council

funded

 HE

institutions2
1997/98 5.1 n/a 92.7
1998/99 5.7 n/a 94.8
1999/2000 7.2 n/a 99.9
2000/01 8.4 18.5 109.7
2001/02 7.2 20.0 120.8
1FE data cover non-EU overseas students studying HE and FE in English FECs, based on a census count as at 1 November.
2HE figures cover non-EU overseas students studying HE and FE in English HEIs including the OU, based on a census count as at 1 December.

Source:

Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) and Learning Skills Council (LSC).