§ Mr. WigginTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what the(a) participation rates in and (b) drop out rates from higher education were in the last period for which figures are available, broken down by (i) parliamentary constituency and (ii) local education authority. [150464]
§ Alan JohnsonParticipation rates at constituency level are not held centrally. The available information on participation rates by Local Education Authority (LEA) is taken from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) and covers 18-year-old applicants who were accepted to full time undergraduate courses in the UK. Figures for the latest year are in the table.
Non-completion rates by student domicile are not calculated by the Department. The available information on non-completion rates by institution of study is published annually by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) in the publication `Performance Indicators in Higher Education in the UK', a copy of which is in the House Library.
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Proportion of English domiciled students aged 18 accepted through UCAS to full-time undergraduate courses in the UK, by LEA of domicile: autumn 2002 entry Local education authority ( LEA) 17-year- old
population
in 2001
18-year- olds
accepted
to HE in
2002
Proportion entering
Higher
Education
(%)
Barking 1,965 268 13.6 Barnet 3,958 1,279 32.3 Barnsley 2,714 409 15.1 Bath and NE Somerset 1,937 450 23.2 Bedfordshire 4,629 1,149 24.8 Bexlev 2,657 539 20.3 Birmingham 1,3647 2,576 18.9 Blackburn with Darwen 1,982 375 18.9 Blackpool 1,641 272 16.6 Bolton 5,539 734 20.7 Bournemouth 1,550 368 23.7 1787W
Proportion of English domiciled students aged 18 accepted through UCAS to full-time undergraduate courses in the UK, by LEA of domicile: autumn 2002 entry Local education authority ( LEA) 17-year -old
population
in 2001
18-year- olds
accepted
to HE in
2002
Proportion entering
Higher
Education
(%)
Bracknell Forest 1,509 272 18.0 Bradford 6,860 1.279 18.6 Brent 3,080 1,053 34.2 Brighton and Hove 2,487 446 17.9 Bristol, City of 4,448 1,038 23.3 Bromley 3,145 1,037 33.0 Buckinghamshire 6,047 1,905 31.5 Bury 2,349 596 25.4 Calderdale 2,410 522 21.7 Cambridgeshire 7,001 1,532 21.9 Camden 1,980 402 20.3 Cheshire 8,303 2,594 31.2 City of London 44 58 131.8 Cornwall (including Isles of Scilly) 6,185 1.280 20.7 Coventry 4,058 773 19.0 Croydon 4,077 1,011 24.8 Cumbria 5,922 1,340 22.6 Darlington 1,260 288 22.9 Derby 2,858 530 18.5 Derbyshire 8,503 1,911 22.5 Devon 8,290 1,738 21.0 Doncaster 3,794 682 18.0 Dorset 4,728 973 20.6 Dudley 3,656 730 20.0 Durham 6,382 1.222 19.1 Ealing 3,696 1,086 29.4 East Riding of Yorkshire 4,014 880 21.9 East Sussex 5,921 1,191 20.1 Enfield 3,017 931 30.9 Essex 15,622 3.584 22.9 Gateshead 2,542 443 17.4 Gloucestershire 6,944 1,733 25.0 Greenwich 2,755 393 14.3 Hackney 2,706 331 12.2 Halton 1,806 285 15.8 Hammersmith and Fulham 1,484 291 19.6 Hampshire 16,286 3543 21.8 Haringey 2,389 487 20.4 Harrow 2.843 1,120 39.4 Hartlepool 1,268 230 18.1 Havering 2,756 428 15.5 Herefordshire 2,030 508 25.0 Hertfordshire 12,274 3,572 29.1 Hillingdon 2,961 798 27.0 Hounslow 2.470 676 27.4 Isle of Wight 1,537 294 19.1 Islington 2,044 329 16.1 Kensington and Chelsea 1,680 334 19.9 Kent 16,488 3,863 23.4 Kingston-upon-Hull, City of 3,289 417 12.7 Kingston-upon-Thames 1,608 524 32.6 Kirklees 4,956 1,114 22.5 Knowsley 2,303 311 13.5 Lambeth 2,916 496 17.0 Lancashire 14,823 3,511 23.7 Leeds 8,541 1,699 19.9 Leicester 3,928 833 21.2 Leicestershire 7,607 1,854 24.4 Lewisham 2.838 474 16.7 Lincolnshire 7,769 1.842 23.7 Liverpool 6,041 1,101 18.2 Luton 2,423 474 19.6 Manchester 6,272 762 12.1 Med way 3,146 601 19.1 Merton 2,005 530 26.4 Middlesbrough 2,055 379 18.4 Milton Keynes 2,870 522 18.2 Newcastle upon Tyne 3,383 826 24.4 1788W
Proportion of English domiciled students aged 18 accepted through UCAS to full-time undergraduate courses in the UK, by LEA of domicile: autumn 2002 entry Local education authority ( LEA) 17-year -old
population
in 2001
18-year- olds
accepted
to HE in
2002
Proportion entering
Higher
Education
(%)
Newham 3,515 675 19.2 Norfolk 9,010 1,642 18.2 North East Lincolnshire 2,151 312 14.5 North Lincolnshire 2,030 378 18.6 North Somerset 2,336 498 21.3 North Tyneside 2,334 412 17.7 North Yorkshire 7,235 1.850 25.6 Northamptonshire 7,987 1,681 21.0 Northumberland 4,054 964 23.8 Nottingham 3,449 502 14.6 Nottinghamshire 9,302 1,897 20.4 Oldham 3,037 632 20.8 Oxfordshire 7,732 1,700 22.0 Peterborough 2,176 351 16.1 Plymouth 3,161 547 17.3 Poole 1,713 298 17.4 Portsmouth 2,250 385 17.1 Reading 1,640 388 23.7 Redbridge 3,097 1,081 34.9 Redcar and Cleveland 1,949 334 17.1 Richmond upon Thames 1,858 563 30.3 Rochdale 2.762 515 18.6 Rotherham 3,165 530 16.7 Rutland 585 112 19.1 Salford 2,774 376 13.6 Sandwell 3,679 536 14.6 Sefton 3.552 971 27.3 Sheffield 5,998 1,082 18.0 Shropshire 3,554 935 26.3 Slough 1,464 328 22.4 Solihull 2,617 775 29.6 Somerset 6,413 1,337 20.8 South Gloucestershire 2,869 426 14.8 South Tyneside 2,034 353 17.4 Southampton 2,334 427 18.3 Southend on Sea 1,974 355 18.0 Southwark 2,556 401 15.7 St. Helens 2,207 497 22.5 Staffordshire 10,134 2,476 24.4 Stockport 3679 980 26.6 Stockton on Tees 2,552 586 23.0 Stoke-on-Trent 2,951 431 14.6 Suffolk 8,107 1.787 22.0 Sunderland 3,787 612 16.2 Surrey 12,958 3,763 29.0 Sutton 1,933 591 30.6 Swindon 2,260 369 16.3 Tameside 2,847 448 15.7 Telford and Wrekin 2,098 408 19.4 Thurrock 1,631 184 11.3 Torbay 1,480 300 20.3 Tower Hamlets 2,797 408 14.6 Trafford 2,784 736 26.4 Wakefield 3,868 713 18.4 Walsall 3,390 642 18.9 Waltham Forest 2.563 553 21.6 Wandsworth 2,177 514 23.6 Warrington 2,376 551 23.2 Warwickshire 6,271 1,575 25.1 West Berkshire 2,167 437 20.2 West Sussex 8,838 1.912 21.6 Westminster 2,098 356 17.0 Wigan 3,799 708 18.6 Wiltshire 5,721 1,321 23.1 Windsor and Maidenhead 1,835 522 28.4 Wirral 4,247 1,049 24.7 Wokingham 2,002 654 32.7 Wolverhampton 3,146 710 22.6 Worcestershire 6,586 1,640 24.9
Proportion of English domiciled students aged 18 accepted through UCAS to full-time undergraduate courses in the UK, by LEA of domicile: autumn 2002 entry Local education authority ( LEA) 17-year- old
population
in 2001
18-year- olds
accepted
to HE in
2002
Proportion entering
Higher
Education
(%)
York 2.037 572 28.1 Total England 613,573 134.785 27.0
Notes:1. The effect of year on year fluctuations on a small population mean that this method of calculating participation rates is unreliable for the City of London.Participation rates have been calculated using the 17-year-old population from the previous year to reduce the distortion caused to LEA populations by the migration of students to their place of study. However, any migration, for whatever reason, at age 17 will affect the rates shown here, particularly between authorities that are geographically clos,:, for example in the London area.Accepted applicants with unknown English domiciles are excluded from the figures.Population figures relate to persons aged 17 as at 31 August in the year prior to entry, counts taken at the following 1 January; accepted applicants are aged 18 at 30 September in the year of entry.