§ Mr. SheermanTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many British students undertook(a) part of their British undergraduate degree programme, (b) their whole undergraduate degree, and (c) a post-graduate qualification abroad in each year since 1990. [164848]
§ Alan JohnsonThe latest available information is shown in the table. Figures for earlier years are not held centrally.
Students form the UK studying all or part of their course overseas Undergraduate exchange students on
year out abroad1
UK students studying the whole of their course abroad2
1994/95 2,650 26,400 1995/96 3,275 n/a 1996/97 3,940 n/a 1997/98 3,710 26,200 1998/99 4,580 26,900 1999/2000 5,470 27,600 2000/01 4,700 25,400 2001/02 4,940 n/a 2002/03 9,770 n/a n/a = not available 1Figures for 2002/03 include non-exchange language students, which are excluded for the figures for previous years. Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). 2Estimated. Covers all courses; figures are not available for undergraduate and postgraduate courses separately. Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).