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Written Question
Doctors: Training
Monday 8th January 2018

Asked by: Lord Clark of Windermere (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many undergraduates in total were enrolled in UK university training to be doctors on 1 November of (1) 2010, (2) 2011, (3) 2012, (4) 2013, (5) 2014, (6) 2015, (7) 2016, and (8) 2017; and how many new undergraduates enrolled in UK universities to train to be doctors in each year from 2010 to 2017.

Answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)

The Higher Education Statistics Agency collects data on students enrolled and qualifying from courses at UK Higher Education Institutions, including information on subject of study.

The attached table shows the numbers of enrolments in first degrees in pre-clinical and clinical medicine (as defined by the Joint Academic Coding System in each academic year, including how many were newly enrolled that year (“entrants”)). Information for the 2016/17 academic year will become available on the 11 January 2018.

Written Question
Nurses: Training
Tuesday 31st October 2017

Asked by: Lord Clark of Windermere (Labour - Life peer)

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how many students entered university nursing courses in each academic year since 2010, including those who started in the current academic year 2017–18.

Answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)

The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes statistics on students enrolled at UK Higher Education Institutions (HEI). Latest statistics refer to the academic year 2015/16 and can be found at the following link:

https://www.hesa.ac.uk/news/12-01-2017/sfr242-student-enrolments-and-qualifications.

Information on entrants to nursing courses since 2009/10 are provided in the below table. Statistics for the 2016/17 and 2017/18 academic years will be published in January 2018 and 2019 respectively.

All Entrants to Nursing Courses at UK HEIs - Department for Education (DfE) Analysis of the HESA student record

Academic Year

Number of Entrants

2009/10

97,420

2010/11

88,010

2011/12

86,140

2012/13

75,385

2013/14

78,480

2014/15

81,480

2015/16

83,610

Source: DfE Analysis of the HESA student record

Notes:

  1. Figures include entrants on all levels and all modes of study.
  2. Counts are on the basis of full-person equivalents (FPE). Where a student is studying more than one subject, they are apportioned between the subjects that make up their course.
  3. Includes FPE students with course aims in the Joint Academic Coding system (JACS3) category of (B7) Nursing which is part of the subject area ‘Subjects allied to medicine’. More information is available here: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/support/documentation/jacs/jacs3-principal.
  4. Figures rounded to the nearest 5.