APPENDIX 2
Copy of a Letter to the Clerk of the Committee
from the Chief Executive of the Further Education Funding Council
(PAC/2000-01/35)
The Council has been asked to clarify the years
to which the figures given in paragraph 52 of the report refer.
It might be helpful to the committee to have on the record the
full details of the year on year changes in the number of franchised
students. This illustrates the correspondence between withdrawal
from franchising and overall student number reductions.
COUNCIL-FUNDED STUDENT NUMBERS IN ALL INSTITUTIONS
| | Direct
students
(000s)
| Franchised
students
(000s)
| Total
students
(000s)
|
| 1994-95 | 2,427
| 130 | 2,557
|
| 1995-96 | 2,582
| 513 | 3,095
|
| 1996-97 | 2,721
| 770 | 3,491
|
| 1997-98 | 2,800
| 743 | 3,543
|
| 1998-99 | 2,833
| 602 | 3,435
|
| 1999-2000 | 2,927
| 490 | 3,417
|
David Melville
Further Education Funding Council
11 January 2001
|
