To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what percentage of students who started their university course (a) under and (b) over 25 years of age did not complete their university course in each of the last five years.

The Office for Students (OfS) ‘student characteristics: outcomes data dashboard’ shows data broken down by student characteristics across all OfS-registered English Higher Education providers. A link to the dashboard can be found here: https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/data-and-analysis/student-characteristics-data/outcomes-data-dashboard/.

Upon selecting the student characteristic ‘Age (detailed)’, the table shows the completion rate breakdown of full-time undergraduate entrants from the 2010/11 to 2017/18 academic years by age on entry.