Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many students started disability nursing degrees in each of the last 10 years for which figures are available.
The number of students who started learning disability nursing courses in each academic year is shown in the following tables:
Number of entrants to learning disability courses (Education Commissioning (EdCom) data)
Entry year | Number of entrants |
2007/08 | 617 |
2008/09 | 629 |
2009/10 | 723 |
2010/11 | 642 |
2011/12 | 574 |
2012/13 | 618 |
2013/14 | 603 |
2014/15 | 639 |
2015/16 | 607 |
2016/17 | 608 |
Source: Health Education England (HEE), EdCom data.
Number of entrants to learning disability courses (Higher Education Students Early Statistics Survey (HESES) data)
Entry year | Number of entrants |
2017/18 | 454 |
Source: Office for Students, HESES.
Notes:
- Following changes to student funding in August 2017, HEE is no longer responsible for directly commissioning course places and no longer collect EdCom data.
- Data for 2017/18 are shown in the second table. They were collected for the HESES. The survey is based on a census of students who start their course before December and an estimate of those who start later in the year.
- It should be noted that when comparing data in the tables, differences to the number of entrants could be due to differences in data collection methods.