Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many and what proportion of school leavers have participated in higher education in (i) Coventry North East constituency, (ii) Coventry, (iii) the West Midlands and (iv) England in each of the last five years.
The department publishes the number and proportion of 15 year old students from state funded and special schools who entered Higher Education by age 19 over the past five years. This is shown in the table below.
Figures are not available at parliamentary constituency level.
Table 1: Number and proportion of 15 year old students from state funded and special schools who entered higher education by age 19 | ||||||
| 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | |
Coventry | HE Progression Rate | 39.6% | 40.5% | 40.7% | 41.4% | 41.7% |
Number of HE Students | 1,433 | 1,474 | 1,417 | 1,433 | 1,475 | |
West Midlands | HE Progression Rate | 40.3% | 40.5% | 41.5% | 41.9% | 42.1% |
Number of HE Students | 25,630 | 26,237 | 26,006 | 25,897 | 25,560 | |
England | HE Progression Rate | 40.7% | 41.2% | 42.2% | 42.5% | 43.1% |
Number of HE Students | 229,082 | 236,233 | 236,154 | 235,871 | 233,407 | |