Business, Innovation and Skills written question – answered at on 11 December 2012.
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills how many full-time equivalent students were on (a) taught postgraduate and (b) research degree programmes funded by the Higher Education Funding Council in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12 and (iii) 2012-13; and if he will make a statement.
Information on the estimated number of Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) fundable postgraduate taught (PGT) full-time equivalent students is shown in table 1. Research degree programmes are not included in table 1 as they are reported as non-fundable on the Higher Education Students Early Statistics (HESES) survey. This is because they are funded through quality-related (QR) research funding rather than the teaching funding method. 2012/13 data is not currently available; it will become available when institutions make their HESES returns to HEFCE in mid-December. Different sources have been used to provide information on the number of postgraduate research full-time equivalents, as shown in table 2.
Table 1: Estimated number of taught postgraduate full-time equivalent students | ||
2010/11 | 2011/12 | |
HEFCE fundable taught postgraduate | 88,000 | 92,000 |
All taught Postgraduate students | 222,000 | 231,000 |
Note: The number of full-time equivalents (FTEs) has been estimated using FTE ratios from columns 4 and 4a in HESES. Source: HESES and HEIFES |
Table 2: Number of postgraduate research (PGR) FTEs (English Institutions) | |
Number | |
Eligible PGR FTEs in 2010-11 funding | 39,654 |
Eligible PGR FTEs in 2011-12 funding | 42,686 |
Eligible PGR FTEs in 2012-13 funding | 41,360 |
Source: Eligible PGR students in years 1 to 3 of full-time study (and part-time equivalent) taken from the 2009 and 2010 HEFCE Research Activity Surveys and 2010/11 HESA record |
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