Young People: Learning Disabilities
Children, Schools and Families
Written answers and statements, 2 November 2009
Ashok Kumar (Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families
(1) how many of those diagnosed with (a) dyslexia and (b) dyspraxia between the ages of 11 and 18 have gone on to attend university in each year since 1997;
(2) how many children diagnosed with (a) dyslexia and (b) dyspraxia before entering secondary school have gone on to attend university in each year since 1997.
David Lammy (Minister of State (Higher Education and Intellectual Property), Department for Business, Innovation and Skills; Tottenham, Labour)
I have been asked to reply.
Information is not held centrally on children and young people diagnosed with dyspraxia entering higher education. The numbers of 18 year-old undergraduate entrants who were recorded as having dyslexia in the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) student record are given in the table as an alternative. This information is self-reported: therefore a student may choose not to share information about his/her disability.
Figures for the 2008-09 academic year will be available from HESA in January 2010.
| UK Domicile undergraduate entrants( 1) with Dyslexia( 2: ) UK higher education institutions, 1997-98 to 2007-08 | |
| 18-year-old entrants | |
| 1997-98 | 1,375 |
| 1998-99 | 1,615 |
| 1999-2000 | 1,985 |
| 2000-01 | 2,305 |
| 2001-02 | 3,070 |
| 2002-03 | 3,390 |
| 2003-04 | 3,945 |
| 2004-05 | 4,405 |
| 2005-06 | 5,450 |
| 2006-07 | 5,385 |
| 2007-08(3) | 5,730 |
| (1) Covers Entrants to full-time and part-time courses (2) Dyslexia is part of the HESA field 'Disability' which records the type of disability that a student has, on the basis of the student's own self-assessment. (3) Figures for 2007/08 refer to the category 'A specific learning difficulty e.g. dyslexia' in the 'Disability' field and are not directly comparable to previous years. Notes: Figures are on a snapshot basis as at 1 December. Figures in the table are rounded to the nearest five. Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) | |