Overseas Students: China and India

(asked on 7th February 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many international students in higher education from (a) India and (b) China went on to (i) post-graduate education, (ii) employment and (iii) left the UK at the end of their studies in (A) 2015, (B) 2016, (C) 2017 and (D) 2018.


Answered by
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Chris Skidmore
This question was answered on 14th February 2019

The department has published employment/further study outcomes for international students based on Longitudinal Educational Outcomes data in the publication, ‘Graduate outcomes (LEO): 2015 to 2016’, at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/graduate-outcomes-2015-to-2016.

The employment outcomes categories are grouped as follows:

  • Unmatched/Activity not captured - we have no tax/benefits/further study records for these graduates in the tax year in question.
  • No sustained destination - we have a tax and/or benefits record but it does not fulfil the definition of ‘sustained employment’.
  • Sustained employment only - graduates are considered to be in sustained employment if they were employed for at least one day for 5 out of the 6 months between October and March of the tax year in question or if they had a self-employment record in that tax year. To be in the sustained employment only category, graduates must not have a record of further study in the tax year in question.
  • Sustained employment, further study or both - includes all graduates with a record of sustained employment and/or further study. A graduate is defined as being in further study if they have a valid higher education study record at any UK Higher Education Institution on the Higher Education Statistics Agency database in the relevant tax year. The further study does not have to be at postgraduate level to be counted.

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