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Industrial Design Courses
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will list the universities which provide industrial design-related programmes; and how many are (a) undergraduate programmes and (b) specifically industrial design courses. [44968]
Bill Rammell: The latest available information covers academic year 2006–07, and is taken from the UCAS website. This covers full-time first degree, HND and foundation degree courses only. Comparable information for part-time undergraduate courses, and postgraduate courses, are not available centrally.
Institutions offering Industrial Design courses 1 in 2006/07:
Mrs. Curtis-Thomas: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many people graduated from design-related courses in each year since 2001. [44969]
Bill Rammell: The latest figures are given in the following table:
Note:
1. igures are rounded to the nearest 5.
2. igures for 2001/02 and earlier are based upon the major subject of the qualification. For 2002/03 onwards, figures by subject are apportioned between the subjects studied.
Source:
HESA student record data
Intelligent Accountability Framework
Mr. Gauke: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what progress she has made in replacing accountability requirements on schools for departmental skills programmes with the intelligent accountability framework of the New Relationship with Schools; and if she will make a statement. [53535]
Jacqui Smith:
Good progress is being made in putting in place intelligent accountability arrangements as part of the New Relationship with Schools. These arrangements now include self-evaluation by each school to identify strengths and areas for development, which plays an important part in Ofsted's new inspection framework; production of a school profile to replace the governor's annual report, to inform parents and the public about the school, in particular its achievements and priorities for improvement; from April 2006 the removal of the application process for many streams of funding and the use of a school plan annex to bid for others from the Department; and the
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introduction of school improvement partners for secondary schools by September 2006 and for primary schools by April 2008, acting on behalf of local authorities to provide effective challenge and support to schools, much of this from serving and former head teachers.
International Initiatives
Mr. Boswell: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills if she will make a statement on recent international initiatives involving her Department, with particular reference to (a) India, (b) China and (c) Africa. [56325]
Bill Rammell: The Department is providing funding for the establishment of a new Africa Unit at the Association of Commonwealth Universities which will facilitate and promote sustainable collaborative partnerships between African and UK universities.
In September 2005, the Prime Minister announced a £10 million initiative over five years to re-vitalise links between educational institutions in the UK and India. The development of sustainable, long-term partnerships between institutions will be key to the success of this initiative. I expect to announce details of this initiative in April.
The UK has made substantial progress in strengthening its educational links with China. A new scholarship programme, jointly funded by the Chinese and UK Governments, to enable PhD students from China to study in the UK was launched in February 2005. Both Governments have agreed to review progress on an annual basis at a ministerial education summit meeting. The next meeting will be held on 4 April in London.
There are more than 160 Higher Education partnerships between UK and Chinese institutions including the setting up of a campus by the University of Nottingham in Ningbo. 73 new school links were created in 2004/05. In December 2005, my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced an additional £4 million over the next two financial years to support scholarships and encourage academic exchanges and collaboration between UK and Chinese centres of excellence.
We are also engaging with partners in the Middle East. The Department is proposing to support a UK/Iraq initiative for the development of the vocational education system in Iraq through partnership with the UK Further Education sector.
In addition, we are working with the British Council and Foreign Office to develop programmes for education collaboration with Saudi Arabia and Libya.
International Students
Mr. Sheerman: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills how many international students were studying in the United Kingdom in each of the last 10 years. [48601]
Bill Rammell:
The latest information is given in the following table:
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Note:
Figures are rounded to the nearest 5, and are on a snapshot basis as at 1 December, to maintain a consistent time series across all years.
Source:
Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) student record
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