Higher Education: Birmingham
Business, Innovation and Skills
Written answers and statements, 3 November 2009
Richard Burden (Birmingham, Northfield, Labour)
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills how many school students from Birmingham, Northfield constituency entered higher education in each of the last 10 years.
David Lammy (Minister of State (Higher Education and Intellectual Property), Department for Business, Innovation and Skills; Tottenham, Labour)
It is not possible to identify whether entrants to higher education from Birmingham Northfield constituency attended schools or further education colleges. The numbers of 18 and 19-year-old undergraduate entrants to UK Higher Education Institutions from Birmingham Northfield constituency are given as an alternative in the table.
Undergraduate entrants from Birmingham Northfield constituency are defined by full and valid home post codes recorded for the student in the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) student record. Some of these students, although resident in Birmingham Northfield, may not have attended schools in Birmingham Northfield constituency.
Figures for the 2008/09 academic year will be available from HESA in January 2010.
| 18 and 19-year-old undergraduate entrants( 1) from Birmingham Northfield constituency( 2) UK higher education institutions( 3) —academic years 1998/99 to 2007/08 | ||
| Academic year | 18-year-old entrants | 19-year-old entrants |
| 1998/99 | 95 | 40 |
| 1999/2000 | 130 | 70 |
| 2000/01 | 140 | 60 |
| 2001/02 | 155 | 50 |
| 2002/03 | 155 | 70 |
| 2003/04 | 165 | 70 |
| 2004/05 | 145 | 45 |
| 2005/06 | 180 | 85 |
| 2006/07 | 160 | 75 |
| 2007/08 | 155 | 80 |
| (1) Covers entrants to full-time and part-time courses. (2) The figures in the answer do not include entrants where the constituency of the student cannot be established due to missing or invalid information. (3) Excludes the Open university due to inconsistencies in their coding of entrants across the time series. Note: Figures are based on a snapshot as at 1 December and have been rounded to the nearest five. Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) | ||