Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many student midwives there were in each academic year since 2014-15.
The latest data on the total number of enrolments into midwifery courses in each academic year is presented in the following table which shows the number of enrolled students across all years of study residing in England, almost all of whom study at English universities.
Midwifery | |||||
Academic year | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 |
Total number of enrolments | 7,905 | 8,000 | 8,020 | 7,985 | 8,130 |
Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency, published at https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/students/table-22 |
Note:
- Enrolments include all levels of study: all undergraduate and postgraduate midwifery courses.