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Veterinary Science (Wales)
Mr. Simon Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many students from Wales study veterinary science in (a) England and (b) Scotland; and how many are Welsh speakers. [42656]
Margaret Hodge: The latest available data are shown in the table. Information on the number of these students who are Welsh speakers is not held centrally.
| Location of study | Number of students |
|---|---|
| England | 99 |
| Scotland | 24 |
Medical Schools
Mr. Martyn Jones: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many student places there have been at medical schools in the UK; and how many candidates applied for those places in each of the last five years. [42840]
Margaret Hodge [holding answer 14 March 2002]: The latest available information is shown in the table.
| Year of entry: | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | |
| Planned intake | 5,020 | 5,062 | 5,165 | 5,595 | 5,928 |
| Applicants(11) | 12,076 | 11,807 | 10,972 | 10,226 | 10,231 |
(11) Home and overseas students applying via the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS).
University Students (Complaints System)
Margaret Moran: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what measures she is taking to introduce a UK-wide independent complaints system for university students. [43075]
Margaret Hodge: Universities UK have consulted the higher education sector on the establishment of an independent reviewer for student complaints once internal procedures have been exhausted. We are currently considering Universities UK's proposals. We wish to introduce an independent complaints system as soon as is practicable.
Educational Qualifications
Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of working age people in the constituency of Buckingham hold a qualification at degree level or equivalent or above; and what the national average is. [43297]
Margaret Hodge: The latest available figures from the Local Area Labour Force Survey show that, in 2000–01, 29.8 per cent. of people of working age resident in the constituency of Buckingham held a qualification at degree level or equivalent or above, compared to 23.3 per cent. in Great Britain.
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Schools Adjudicator
Mr. Shaw: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what powers she has to overturn a decision by the schools adjudicator where he has ruled that a school cannot increase its intake due to cost and proximity to another equivalent school. [43981]
Mr. Timms: Schools adjudicators are independent of the Secretary of State. She has no powers to overturn any decision made by them. Their decisions can be overturned only by the Courts.
Circulars
Mr. Lidington: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the circular documents that have been sent by (a) the Office for Standards in Education, (b) the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and (c) the Teacher Training Authority to (i) primary schools and (ii) secondary schools since 7 June 2001; and how many pages each document contained. [44080]
Mr. Timms: Information provided by Ofsted, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and the Teacher Training Agency is as follows.
- Ofsted
- HMCI's Annual Report, 2000–01 (sent to all maintained schools in February 2002, 138 pages)
- Key Stage 3 Strategy: Pilot Year 1 (sent to all secondary schools and special schools with secondary-age pupils in January 2002, 32 pages)
- Good Teaching, Effective Departments (sent to all secondary schools in January 2002, 82 pages)
- Improving Inspection, Improving Schools: Consultation Results (sent to all maintained schools in January 2002, 14 pages)
- Providing for Gifted and Talented Children: An Evaluation of Excellence in Cities and other grant-funded programmes (sent to all maintained schools in December 2001, 52 pages)
- Improving Inspection: Letter from HMCI (sent to all maintained schools in December 2001, 2 pages)
- National Numeracy Strategy: Second Year (sent to all maintained schools in December 2001, 40 pages)
- National Literacy Strategy: Third Year (sent to all maintained schools in December 2001, 52 pages)
- Managing Support for the Attainment of Pupils from Ethnic Minority Groups (sent to all maintained schools in October 2001, 52 pages)
- Improving Inspection, Improving Schools: Questionnaire (sent to all maintained schools in September 2001, 10 pages)
- Improving Inspection, Improving Schools: Consultation on the Framework (sent to all maintained schools in September 2001, 20 pages)
- Extending Work-related Learning at Key Stage 4 (sent to secondary schools in June 2001, 48 pages)
- The Qualifications & Curriculum Authority
- Advanced Extension award leaflets (sent to secondary schools in February 2002, 4 pages)
- Schemes of work for citizenship at Key Stage 3 (sent to secondary schools in February 2002, 135 pages)
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- Circular 137, Arrangements to secure consistent standards across Key Stage 1 schools through the process of audit and verification of assessment results for statutory tasks and tests in 2002 (sent to relevant independent primary schools in February 2002, 1 page)
- Circular 136, Key Stage 1, 2 and 3 Standards Reports and testbase 2001 CD (sent to all schools in January 2002, 1 page)
- Circular 135, 2002 Key Stage 1 statutory tasks for English and mathematics (sent to schools with pupils in year 2 in December 2001, 95 pages)
- Circular 121, National Curriculum in action: focus on pupils' work (sent to all maintained schools in December 2001, 1 page)
- Circular 134, Implications for Teaching and Learning from the 2001 Key Stage 3 tests, in English, mathematics and science (sent to schools with year 9 pupils in November 2001, 7 pages)
- Circular 133, Implications for Teaching and Learning from the 2001 Key Stage 1 tests in English and mathematics, and Key Stage 2 tests in English, mathematics and science (sent to schools with pupils in years 2 and/or 6 in November 2001, 11 pages)
- Circular 132, 2002 Guidance on administering the years 7 and 8 tests (sent to schools with pupils in years 7 and 8 on 1 November 2001, 57 pages)
- Circular 131, 2002 Key Stage 3 Assessment and reporting arrangements (sent to schools with pupils in year 9 in October 2001, 70 pages)
- Circular 130, 2002 Key Stage 2 Assessment and reporting arrangements (sent to schools with pupils in year 6 in October 2001, 70 pages)
- Circular 129, 2002 Key Stage 1 Assessment and reporting arrangements (sent to schools with pupils in year 2 in October 2001, 64 pages)
- Circular 128, Schemes of work for citizenship at Key Stage 3 (sent to secondary schools in October 2001, 194 pages)
- Circular 127, Data collection-monitoring of regulations allowing disapplication at Key Stage 4, 2001–02 (sent to maintained schools with pupils in years 10 and 11 in September 2001, 2 pages)
- Circular 126, Managing curriculum 2000 for 16–19 students (sent to secondary schools in September 2001, 32 pages)
- Circular 124, Statutory test dates for 2003 for Key Stages 2 and 3 (sent to schools with pupils in years 6 and/or 9 in July 2001, 2 pages)
- Circular 123, KS3 and Y7 level thresholds, 2002 test dates (sent to schools with pupils in years 7 and 9 in July 2001, 11 pages)
- Circular 122, KS2 and Y7 level thresholds, 2002 test dates (sent to schools with pupils in years 6 and 7 in July 2001, 18 pages)
- Teacher Training Agency
- Information about Special Educational Needs CD-ROM (sent to all schools in December 2001, 1 page).
Oxford Brookes University
Mr. Lidington: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what consultations have taken place between her Department and Oxford Brookes university about the proposed closure of the university's courses in geology, civil engineering and geotechnics, mapping and cartography; and when she was informed of the proposed closures. [44081]
Margaret Hodge: No such consultation has taken place. The Secretary of State is aware of the proposed course closures, but these are matters for the university to determine, in discussion with the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
Learning and Skills Council
Mr. Lidington: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the circular documents
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that have been sent by the Learning and Skills Council to (a) secondary schools and (b) colleges of further education; and how many pages each document contained. [44035]
Margaret Hodge: This is a matter for the Learning and Skills Council. I have therefore asked John Harwood, the Council's Chief Executive, to write to the hon. Member with the information requested and to place a copy of his reply in the Library.
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