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Further Education Funding

Paul Holmes: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of the extra funding given to further education in June (a) has been and (b) will be allocated to (i) school sixth forms, (ii) work-based learning providers, (iii) sixth form colleges and (iv) further education colleges. [190574]

Dr. Howells: It is for the LSC to determine the distribution of funding to the learning and skills sector. Mark Haysom, the LSC's Chief Executive, will write to the hon. Member with this information and a copy of his reply will be placed in the Library.

GCSEs

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of students taking (a) GCSE mathematics, (b) GCSE history, (c) GCSE English, (d) GCSE French and (e) GCSE physics received an (i) A grade, (ii) C grade and (iii) pass or better in each year from 1989 to 2004; and if he will make a statement. [192133]

Mr. Miliband: The information requested is shown in the following table.
 
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Percentage of 15 year old pupils achieving GCSE/GNVQs at the following subjects and grades

Maths
History
English
Year1,2A*/ACA*-GA*/ACA*-GA*/ACA*-G
1989
1990
1991
19927.822.594.011.519.994.98.326.098.3
199310.224.294.513.920.795.610.926.498.6
199410.220.295.314.520.495.611.225.897.0
19959.521.394.915.019.794.811.125.196.9
199610.121.395.516.519.596.011.624.897.3
199710.721.395.617.319.596.011.324.897.4
199811.120.295.019.618.996.512.325.699.0
199911.620.396.221.118.896.913.025.199.1
200011.921.096.822.818.497.314.024.998.9
200112.321.396.723.618.297.214.425.098.8
200213.321.396.924.218.396.814.524.798.6
200312.921.296.125.518.396.915.224.398.6
200413.222.396.526.218.097.115.625.198.0

French
Physics
A*/ACA*-GA*/ACA*-G
1989
1990
1991
199212.414.596.016.125.298.0
199317.415.496.529.222.499.0
199417.816.097.135.222.799.4
199517.316.896.638.719.099.0
199617.916.997.039.217.199.3
199717.916.896.939.719.199.3
199817.018.398.543.219.999.4
199917.219.698.745.519.399.5
200017.020.298.645.518.999.6
200116.722.098.545.719.799.5
200216.921.998.546.819.699.5
200316.720.497.846.619.599.6
200417.120.897.948.219.199.7


(14) Figures from 1989 are not available
(15) Figures for 1992 are based on the results of 15 year old pupils in maintained schools only.


Mr. Martlew: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of 15 and 16 year olds in (a) Carlisle, (b) Cumbria and (c) England achieved five or more GCSEs at grade A*-C in each of the last seven years. [191573]

Mr. Miliband: The information requested is:
Percentage of 15 year old pupils(16) achieving five or more grades A*-C at GCSE/GNVQ
Percentage

Carlisle constituencyCumbria
LEA
England
199740.543.545.1
199838.643.946.3
199941.647.647.9
200044.650.649.2
200145.450.850.0
200245.252.751.6
200344.952.952.9


(16) GCSE/GNVQ results are reported as standard as the results of pupils aged 15 at the start of the academic year i.e. 31 August, and therefore reaching the end of compulsory education at the end of the school year.


 
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Green Minister

Mr. Horam: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many meetings of the Ministerial Sub-Committee of Green Ministers were attended by the Department's Green Minister in (a) 2002–03 and (b) 2003–04. [190849]

Mr. Stephen Twigg: The Secretary of State for Education and Skills is DfES's Green Minister and in this role is a member of the Ministerial Committees of Green Ministers. However, it has been established practice under successive Governments not to disclose information relating to the proceedings of Cabinet Committees. This practice is now formalised by Exemption 2 of Part II of the Code of Practice on Access to Government Information.

Higher Education

Mr. Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if he will make a statement on the financial situation of higher education institutions. [190583]

Dr. Howells: The following table shows the overall financial position of the publicly funded higher education sector in England.
£ million

Total incomeOperating surplus
2000–0111,66944
2001–0211,84390
2002–0312,723218



Source:
HESA


Mr. Bercow: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what percentage of working age people in the Buckingham constituency hold a qualification at degree level or equivalent or above; and what the national average is. [191052]

Dr. Howells: The latest available figures from the Local Area Labour Force Survey 2002 show that the proportion of people of working age resident in the constituency of Buckingham who hold a qualification at NVQ level 4 or above is 31.9 per cent., with a 95 per cent. confidence interval of 25.9 per cent. to 37.9 per cent.
 
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This compares to a figure of 24.2 per cent. for Great Britain, with a 95 per cent. confidence interval of 24.0 per cent. to 24.4 per cent. NVQ level 4 covers degrees, HMDs and other undergraduate qualifications.

Mr. Laws: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of each age cohort entered higher education in each year from 1985/86 to 2004/05; and if he will make a statement. [191308]

Dr. Howells: The individual year of age entry rates derived from the Higher Education Initial Participation Rate (HEIPR), for academic years 1999/2000 to 2002/03, are shown in the first table below. The HEIPR was developed to monitor progress towards the Government's goal of 50 per cent. participation in HE by 2010 and was not calculated prior to 1999/00. The available participation rate data for these earlier years, which show participation in terms of age bands rather than single ages, are shown in the second table.
Higher education initial participation rate
Percentage

Academic year
Age(17)1999/2000 22000/01 22001/02 22002/03 (provisional) 2
170.30.30.30.3
1819.119.820.420.0
199.59.610.79.9
202.62.93.03.0
211.71.91.71.8
221.31.41.21.5
231.11.11.01.3
240.90.90.91.1
250.80.80.81.0
260.80.80.80.9
270.70.70.70.8
280.70.70.70.7
290.70.70.60.7
300.70.60.60.6
Total(19)41424344


(17) Age as at 31 August before the beginning of the academic year (e.g. 31 August 1999 for 1999/00).
(18) HE entrants in academic year as a percentage of separate age population; excludes entrants with previous HE experience and excludes students who enrol on (and complete) courses of less than six months. The overall HEIPR is the sum of the unrounded full-time and part-time initial participation rates, calculated using student records collected by HESA and LSC, and ONS population estimates.
(19) The individual rates are rounded to the nearest 0.1 per cent. and so do not sum exactly to the totals which are rounded to the nearest whole number.
Note:
Figures for 2002/03 are provisional. The figures have been updated with revised figures from all sources. Further revisions, in particular to the 2002/03 provisional figure, may be necessary following any revision to the relevant source data.



Participation rates in HE by age group
Percentage

Academic yearAge participation index (API) 1Younger mature entry index (YMEI) 2Older mature participation index (OMPI) 3
1985/8613.87.70.3
1986/8714.07.40.3
1987/8814.56.70.3
1988/8915.16.40.3
1989/9017.16.20.4
1990/9119.36.40.4
1991/9223.38.10.5
1992/9327.59.50.6
1993/9429.910.20.7
1994/9531.6n/an/a
1995/9632.5n/an/a
1996/9733.1n/an/a
1997/9833.4n/an/a
1998/9931.3n/an/a
1999/200031.5n/an/a
2000/0133.4n/an/a
2001/0234.9n/an/a



n/a = not available
(20) The API is the number of young (under 21) UK domiciled initial entrants to full-time and sandwich undergraduate courses, expressed as a percentage of the averaged 18–19 year old population.
(21) The YMEI is the number of initial entrants aged 21–24 expressed as a percentage of the numbers of potential entrants in the age group i.e. those who obtained one or more A levels or equivalent qualification at the ages of 18–20 but who did not then enter higher education.
(22) The OMPI is the number of initial entrants aged 25 and over expressed as a percentage of the population aged 25–34 in that year.


 
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