Higher Education: Botany
Business, Innovation and Skills
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Brian Jenkins (Tamworth, Labour)
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
(1) how many students received an undergraduate degree in botany at a university in England in each of the last five years;
(2) how many PhDs in botany have been awarded by universities in England in each of the last five years.
David Lammy (Minister of State (Higher Education and Intellectual Property), Department for Business, Innovation and Skills; Tottenham, Labour)
The latest information from the Higher Education Statistics Agency is shown in the following table. Figures for the 2008/09 academic year will be available in January 2010.
| Doctorate, first degree and other undergraduate botany qualifiers( 1) : UK Higher Education Institutions | |||
| Academic years 2003/04 to 2007/08 | |||
| Academic year | Doctorate | First d egree | Other u ndergraduate |
| 2003/04 | 65 | 80 | 55 |
| 2004/05 | 60 | 60 | 60 |
| 2005/06 | 55 | 65 | 40 |
| 2006/07 | 60 | 60 | 55 |
| 2007/08 | 65 | 45 | 50 |
| (1) Covers qualifiers of all domiciles from both full-time and part-time courses. Note: Figures are based on a qualifications obtained population and have been rounded to the nearest five. Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) | |||