Innovation, Universities and Skills written question – answered at on 28 April 2009.
Nigel Evans
Conservative, Ribble Valley
To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what estimate he has made of the proportion of students first educated at secondary level in (a) the state sector and (b) independent schools who did not complete the first year of a university undergraduate degree course in the latest period for which information is available.
David Lammy
Minister of State (Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills) (Higher Education & Intellectual Property)
The latest figures derived from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Performance Indicators are shown in the following table.
| Non-continuation( 1) rates for young entrants( 2) to full-time first degree courses by type of school attended for the academic year 2005-06 | ||
| Previous school type | Number of young entrants | Non-continuation rate (percentage) |
| State school | 206,600 | 6.9 |
| Independent school | 29,700 | 4.2 |
| (1) Non-continuation rates provide the percentage of students who enter an HEI in the academic year who are no longer in an HEI in the following academic year and have not qualified. (2) There are 24,900 students who do not continue their education and for whom it was not possible to identify a previous school type. The rate of discontinuation for these students was 12 per cent. | ||
Yes5 people think so
No1 person thinks not
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