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Figures in table 1 cover home, EU and overseas enrolments, whereas figures in table 2 cover home entrants only.
Mr. Rob Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills what proportion of those who have received a foundation degree have gone on to enrol on an honours degree course since the inception of such degrees, broken down by (a) year and (b) type of honours institution; and what proportion of such enrolment was into (i) pre-1992 and (ii) post-1992 university. [249112]
Mr. Lammy: The latest available information published by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) is shown in table 1. This information is not available by type of honours institution, or pre/post 1992 university.
| Table 1: Home foundation degree qualifiers( 1) who progressed to an honours degree; English higher education institutions—academic years 2004/05 and 2005/06 | ||||
| 2004/05 | 2005/06 | |||
| Progression to honours degree programmes | Number of qualifiers | Percentage | Number of qualifiers | Percentage |
| (1) Some students qualify with an honours degree without being reported as gaining a foundation degree. These qualifiers are excluded from the analysis presented here. Source: “Foundation degrees 2007/03” and “Foundation degrees 2008/16” reports published by Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) | ||||
The available information on Foundation Degree (FD) qualifiers from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) who went on to study a first degree in the following academic year only is shown in table 2. The figures were derived from the destinations surveys, which collect information about the destinations of qualifiers six months after qualification. Figures for 2007/08 will be available in July 2009.
The available information is limited to qualifiers who went on to study for a first degree in the year immediately following qualification: it does not cover those who chose to progress to a first degree at a later stage.
For a number of reasons, it is difficult to draw reliable conclusions about the trends in the numbers of FD qualifiers who went on to study for a first degree in the following academic year. FDs were only introduced in 2001/02 and until 2004/05 there were relatively low numbers of qualifiers, which makes the figures inherently more volatile. It is also important to note that FD qualifiers tend to be older than qualifiers from other levels of study. Older qualifiers are less likely to go on to study for a first degree in the year immediately following qualification, because they are often already employed and tend to have other financial and domestic commitments. They may therefore be more likely to proceed to further study at a later date.
Mr. Rob Wilson: To ask the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills how many foundation degrees were awarded in each employment sector in each of the last five years. [249115]
Mr. Lammy: Qualifiers from foundation degrees by employment sector are not available. The latest figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) for qualifiers from foundation degrees by subject of study have been provided as an alternative. The HESA student record only covers qualifiers from higher education institutions (HEIs).
| Table 1: Qualifiers( 1) from foundation degrees by subject of study, English higher education institutions, academic years 2002/03 to 2006/07 | |||||
| Subject of study | 2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 |
| (1) Figures cover qualifiers from all domiciles and modes of study. Notes: Figures are based on a HESA qualifications obtained population and have been rounded to the nearest five, so components may not sum to totals. Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). | |||||
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