Higher Education: Degree Programmes

House of Lords written question – answered at on 14 January 2013.

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Photo of Lord Storey Lord Storey Liberal Democrat

To ask Her Majesty's Government what proportion of students enrolled on degree programmes at (1) universities, (2) university colleges, (3) colleges of higher education, and (4) further education colleges, dropped out of their programmes in (a) 2010-11, (b) 2011-12, and (c) to date in 2012-13.

Photo of Baroness Garden of Frognal Baroness Garden of Frognal Lords Spokesperson (Department of Business, Innovation and Skills), Baroness in Waiting (HM Household) (Whip)

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) publishes information on non-continuation and non-completion rates for undergraduate students as part of the performance indicators for higher education (HE) in the UK. Non-continuation rates are not available grouped by provider type, though statistics are available for individual higher education institutions. Latest figures refer to students who started courses in the academic year 2009-10 and are available at the following link: http://www.hesa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2064 &Itemid=141.

Figures for students starting courses in the 2010-11 academic year will become available from HESA in March 2013.

The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) published comparisons of non-continuation rates for entrants to higher education at further education colleges and higher education institutions in the academic year 2008-09 in its report Widening Participation and Non-Continuation Indicators for Further Education Colleges, which was published in September 2012. The report is available at the following link: http://www.hefce. ac.uk/pubs/year/2012/201220/.

An update to this research will be published by HEFCE in early 2013, and will include entrants to higher education courses in the academic year 2009-10.

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