Higher Education: Bradford
(asked on 26th February 2015) - View Source
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many students from Bradford were the first to go to university from their family in each year since 2005.
The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes data on students enrolled at UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs).
The Table shows the proportion of students from Bradford Local Authority area and the UK overall who started a full-time first degree course at a UK Higher Education Institution in the academic years 2008/09 to 2013/14 and who declared that their parents did not hold a higher education qualification. Comparable information is not available for the earlier years.
Information for the 2014/15 academic year will become available from the Higher Education Statistics Agency in January 2016.
Full-time first degree entrants domiciled in Bradford Local Authority and the UK whose parents do not hold a higher education qualification
UK Higher Education Institutions
Academic Years 2008/09 to 2013/14
Bradford | UK Overall | |||||
Academic Year | Percentage of entrants whose parents do NOT have any higher education qualification | Count of respondents | Count of students where information is unknown | Percentage of entrants whose parents do NOT have any higher education qualification | Count of respondents | Count of students where information is unknown |
2008/09 | 60% | 2,040 | 550 | 47% | 270,345 | 91,080 |
2009/10 | 60% | 2,280 | 560 | 47% | 281,410 | 95,540 |
2010/11 | 58% | 2,225 | 505 | 45% | 280,600 | 90,800 |
2011/12 | 58% | 2,445 | 510 | 45% | 303,690 | 90,895 |
2012/13 | 59% | 2,270 | 535 | 46% | 275,430 | 81,585 |
2013/14 | 62% | 2,745 | 390 | 48% | 323,850 | 63,110 |
Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) Student Record.
(1) Domicile refers to a student’s permanent or home address prior to entering their course.
(2) More information on how Parental HE is measured is available here: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_studrec&task=show_file&mnl=14051&href=a^_^PARED.html