House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 23 May 2007 (pt 0004)

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Higher Education: Funding

David Howarth: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills pursuant to the statement of the Minister for Higher Education and Lifelong Learning of 15 May 2007, Official Report, column 225WH, on higher education (funding), what figures he used to calculate that there is on average net £100,000 graduate earnings premium; and how he used those figures to reach that final figure. [138731]

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Bill Rammell: Over the working life, the average net graduate earnings premium is comfortably over £100,000 in today’s valuation, compared to what a similar individual would have earned if they just had A levels.

The data which underpin this figure are taken from the Labour Force Survey. We estimate the effect on net additional earnings from getting a degree, after allowing for factors like gender, age, and the probability of being employed. The figures are also discounted so that they are in ‘today's valuation'. Comparing the lifetime earnings profiles of otherwise similar graduates and those with A levels, we find that graduates can expect to earn, after taxation, over £100,000 more than similar non-graduates. Recent research by PricewaterhouseCoopers estimated the discounted gross (i.e. pre-tax) additional lifetime earnings associated with a degree to be around £160,000.

Higher Education: Hartlepool

Mr. Iain Wright: To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills (1) how many students from Hartlepool constituency were allocated a university place in each year since 1996; [137357]

(2) how many students from Hartlepool constituency went to (a) each university and (b) university in each region of the UK in the last year for which information is available. [137439]

Bill Rammell: The total numbers of undergraduate entrants to UK Higher Education Institutions from Hartlepool parliamentary constituency for each year since 1996/97 are given in the table. Figures for the 2006/07 academic year will be available in January 2008.

Number of entrants to undergraduate courses^{( 1)} from Hartlepool parliamentary constituency—UK Higher Education Institutions^{( 2)} academic years 1996/97 to 2005/06
Academic year	Number of entrants
1996/97	500
1997/98	535
1998/99	620
1999/2000	615
2000/01	770
2001/02	825
2002/03	960
2003/04	940
2004/05	940
2005/06	985
⁽¹⁾ Covers students on full-time and part-time modes of study. ⁽²⁾ Excludes the Open University. Note: Figures are on a snapshot basis as at the 1 of December for comparability and are rounded to the nearest five. Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).

The latest available information for the number of students from Hartlepool parliamentary constituency who went to each university in the UK split by the government office region of the institution is given in the following table, for the 2005/06 academic year.

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Number of entrants to undergraduate courses^{( 1)} from Hartlepool parliamentary constituency by institution and Government Office Region of the Institution—UK Higher Education Institutions^{( 2)} academic year 2005/06
Government Office Region / Institution	Number of entrants
North East
The University of Northumbria at Newcastle	95
The University of Sunderland	145
The University of Teesside	510
University of Durham	20
The University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne	30
Total	800

North West
Edge Hill University	5
St. Martin’s College	⁽³⁾—
The University of Central Lancashire	10
Liverpool John Moores University	⁽³⁾—
The Manchester Metropolitan University	5
The University of Lancaster	5
The University of Liverpool	5
The University of Salford	⁽³⁾—
Cumbria Institute of the Arts	⁽³⁾—
The University of Manchester	5
Total	35

Yorkshire and the Humber
York St. John University College	10
Trinity and All Saints College	⁽³⁾—
The University of Huddersfield	10
Leeds Metropolitan University	25
Sheffield Hallam University	5
The University of Hull	10
The University of Leeds	10
The University of Sheffield	⁽³⁾—
The University of York	5
Total	75

East Midlands
The University of Northampton	⁽³⁾—
The University of Lincoln	⁽³⁾—
De Montfort University	5
The Nottingham Trent University	5
The University of Leicester	⁽³⁾—
Loughborough University	⁽³⁾—
The University of Nottingham	5
Total	15

West Midlands
University of Central England in Birmingham	⁽³⁾—
Coventry University	⁽³⁾—
The University of Wolverhampton	⁽³⁾—
Aston University	⁽³⁾—
The University of Birmingham	5
The University of Warwick	⁽³⁾—
Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative Studies	⁽³⁾—
Total	10

East
Anglia Ruskin University	5
University of Hertfordshire	⁽³⁾—
The University of Cambridge	5
The University of Essex	⁽³⁾—
Total	10

London
University of the Arts, London	⁽³⁾—
Rose Bruford College	⁽³⁾—
Kingston University	⁽³⁾—
London South Bank University	⁽³⁾—
Thames Valley University	⁽³⁾—
Brunei University	⁽³⁾—
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine	⁽³⁾—
The Royal Veterinary College	⁽³⁾—
Conservatoire for Dance and Drama	⁽³⁾—
London Metropolitan University	⁽³⁾—
Total	10

South East
The University of Brighton	⁽³⁾—
Oxford Brookes University	5
The University of Portsmouth	5
The University of Kent	⁽³⁾—
The University of Oxford	5
The University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury	⁽³⁾—
Total	10

South West
University of Gloucestershire	⁽³⁾—
The University of Plymouth	5
The University of Bath	⁽³⁾—
Total	5

Scotland
The University of Edinburgh	5
Total	5

Wales
University of Wales, Aberystwyth	⁽³⁾—
Total	⁽³⁾—
Northern Ireland
The Queen's University of Belfast	⁽³⁾—
Total	⁽³⁾—

Total	985
⁽¹⁾ Covers students on full-time and part-time modes of study. ⁽²⁾ Excludes the Open University. Excludes those institutions that did not have any entrants from Hartlepool parliamentary constituency. ⁽³⁾ Number greater than zero but less than three. Note: Figures are on a snapshot basis as at the 1 December for comparability and numbers are rounded to the nearest five therefore components may not sum to totals. Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA).

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