Medicine: Education
(asked on 15th December 2015) - View Source
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what proportion of medical students in England and Wales are white men from a working class background.
The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes data on students at UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). HESA does not collect information on whether students come specifically from a working-class background, nor does it have a definition of the term working-class.
Information on the ethnicity and socio-economic classification of young entrants (those aged less than 21 years old) to medicine subjects at English and Welsh Higher Education Institutions in the academic year 2013/14 is provided in the table. Information on older entrants by socioeconomic background is not available.
Full-Person Equivalent (FPE)(1) young entrants(2) studying Medicine(3) by Sex, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Classification (SEC) | |||||||||
English and Welsh Higher Education Institutions | |||||||||
Academic Year 2013/14 | |||||||||
Male | Female | Total | |||||||
White | Other | Unknown | White | Other | Unknown | White | Other | Unknown | |
Higher managerial & professional occupations | 550 | 330 | 10 | 650 | 335 | 10 | 1200 | 665 | 20 |
Lower managerial & professional occupations | 290 | 130 | 5 | 390 | 155 | 5 | 680 | 285 | 10 |
Intermediate occupations | 120 | 70 | 5 | 125 | 70 | 0 | 245 | 140 | 5 |
Small employers & own account workers | 35 | 50 | 0 | 55 | 50 | 0 | 90 | 100 | 0 |
Lower supervisory & technical occupations | 30 | 15 | 0 | 30 | 10 | 0 | 65 | 25 | 0 |
Semi-routine occupations | 35 | 50 | 0 | 70 | 80 | 0 | 105 | 130 | 0 |
Routine occupations | 10 | 20 | 0 | 30 | 25 | 0 | 40 | 45 | 0 |
Never worked & long-term unemployed | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
Not classified | 180 | 130 | 5 | 195 | 135 | 5 | 375 | 265 | 15 |
Total | 1255 | 800 | 30 | 1545 | 865 | 20 | 2800 | 1665 | 50 |
Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Student Record. | |||||||||
Notes: Figures are based on a HESA standard registration population and have been rounded up or down to the nearest five, so components may not sum to totals. | |||||||||
(1) Counts in the table refer to Full Person Equivalents (FPEs). FPEs are derived by splitting student instances between the different subjects that make up their course aim. | |||||||||
(2) Young entrants are defined as those younger than 21 years old at August 31st of their first academic year | |||||||||
(3) Subject information is defined using the Joint Academic Coding System (JACS2). Medical Subjects were defined as those in JACS Codes A0, A1, A3 and A9 | |||||||||