Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Haltemprice and Howden)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the annual cost was of engineering education per student in higher education institutions in each of the last five years.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
All undergraduate and postgraduate (taught and research) students receive upfront government funding to help cover the costs of their tuition fees and living expenses. The current amount of support they can receive for academic year 2018/19 and earlier years can be found on the Student Finance England website at: https://www.practitioners.slc.co.uk/policy/.
Publicly funded higher education providers also receive direct funding, in the form of a teaching grant, to help support the provision of those subjects where costs typically exceed the amount received through tuition fees. Subjects are assigned to price bands with higher-cost subjects, including medicine and most science, engineering and technology related subject receiving the highest rates of top-up funding. The funding rates for academic year 2018/19 can be found on the Office for Students website at: https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/media/1448/ofs2018_21.pdf.
Information on how funding has been allocated in earlier years by the former Higher Education Funding Council for England can be found at:
https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20180319114434/http://www.hefce.ac.uk/funding/annallocns/.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Haltemprice and Howden)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of university students have not secured graduate employment five years after graduating.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The department publishes statistics on the employment and earnings outcomes of graduates one, 3, 5 and 10 years after graduation from the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset.
Employment and earnings outcomes for the higher education sector as a whole were published in March 2018 as part of ‘Graduate outcomes (LEO): 2015 to 2016’:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/graduate-outcomes-2015-to-2016.
Outcomes by institution and subject were published in June 2018 as part of ‘Graduate Outcomes (LEO): Subject by Provider, 2015 to 2016’: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/graduate-outcomes-leo-subject-by-provider-2015-to-2016.
In addition to these, the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) publishes the occupations of higher education leavers at 6 months and three-and-a-half-years after graduation. The occupations data are collected in HESA’s Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education surveys. Graduates categorised as being in Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) groups one to three[1] are considered to be in ‘Professional Employment’. Information by subject is published at the links below.
Occupation of leavers six months after graduation (see Figure 9):
https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/28-06-2018/sfr250-higher-education-leaver-statistics-subjects.
Occupation of leavers three and a half years after graduation (see Table 9):
https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/publications/long-destinations-2012-13/employment.
[1] SOC groups one to three are ‘Managers, directors and senior officials’, ‘Professional occupations’ and ‘Associate professional and technical occupations’ respectively.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Haltemprice and Howden)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of students have not secured graduate employment five years after graduating by higher education institution.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The department publishes statistics on the employment and earnings outcomes of graduates one, 3, 5 and 10 years after graduation from the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset.
Employment and earnings outcomes for the higher education sector as a whole were published in March 2018 as part of ‘Graduate outcomes (LEO): 2015 to 2016’:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/graduate-outcomes-2015-to-2016.
Outcomes by institution and subject were published in June 2018 as part of ‘Graduate Outcomes (LEO): Subject by Provider, 2015 to 2016’: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/graduate-outcomes-leo-subject-by-provider-2015-to-2016.
In addition to these, the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) publishes the occupations of higher education leavers at 6 months and three-and-a-half-years after graduation. The occupations data are collected in HESA’s Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education surveys. Graduates categorised as being in Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) groups one to three[1] are considered to be in ‘Professional Employment’. Information by subject is published at the links below.
Occupation of leavers six months after graduation (see Figure 9):
https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/28-06-2018/sfr250-higher-education-leaver-statistics-subjects.
Occupation of leavers three and a half years after graduation (see Table 9):
https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/publications/long-destinations-2012-13/employment.
[1] SOC groups one to three are ‘Managers, directors and senior officials’, ‘Professional occupations’ and ‘Associate professional and technical occupations’ respectively.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Haltemprice and Howden)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of students have not secured graduate employment five years after graduating by course.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
The department publishes statistics on the employment and earnings outcomes of graduates one, 3, 5 and 10 years after graduation from the Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) dataset.
Employment and earnings outcomes for the higher education sector as a whole were published in March 2018 as part of ‘Graduate outcomes (LEO): 2015 to 2016’:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/graduate-outcomes-2015-to-2016.
Outcomes by institution and subject were published in June 2018 as part of ‘Graduate Outcomes (LEO): Subject by Provider, 2015 to 2016’: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/graduate-outcomes-leo-subject-by-provider-2015-to-2016.
In addition to these, the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) publishes the occupations of higher education leavers at 6 months and three-and-a-half-years after graduation. The occupations data are collected in HESA’s Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education surveys. Graduates categorised as being in Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) groups one to three[1] are considered to be in ‘Professional Employment’. Information by subject is published at the links below.
Occupation of leavers six months after graduation (see Figure 9):
https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/28-06-2018/sfr250-higher-education-leaver-statistics-subjects.
Occupation of leavers three and a half years after graduation (see Table 9):
https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/publications/long-destinations-2012-13/employment.
[1] SOC groups one to three are ‘Managers, directors and senior officials’, ‘Professional occupations’ and ‘Associate professional and technical occupations’ respectively.
Asked by: David Davis (Conservative - Haltemprice and Howden)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether the Government has made an estimate of the (a) value of property portfolios owned by universities and (b) revenue universities have derived from property holdings in 2017-18.
Answered by Chris Skidmore
English higher education providers are autonomous institutions and their institutional autonomy is protected by the Higher Education and Research Act (2017). Therefore, the government has not made an estimate of the value of property portfolios owned by universities or the revenue universities have derived from property holdings in 2017-2018, because institutions are free to manage their financial affairs.
In the new higher education regulatory framework, the Office for Students (OfS) has responsibilities to monitor and assess the financial sustainability of registered providers in England that are publicly funded. Providers that receive grant money are currently subject to terms and conditions that include financial sustainability. The OfS can also use registration conditions to take into account the individual financial circumstances of each registered provider consistently with its regulatory functions.