Higher Education: Student Wastage
(asked on 19th January 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many students dropped out of their graduate degree course in each of the years from 2012 to 2015.
Answered by
Viscount Younger of Leckie
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) collects and publishes data on students enrolled at UK higher education institutions (HEIs). The percentage of UK domiciled full-time first degree entrants at UK HEIs who did not continue their studies in the following year are published as part of the ‘UK Performance Indicators for Higher Education’ and can be found at:
https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/performance-indicators/non-continuation.
The latest available statistics, found in Table T3a, show that 27,580 UK domiciled full-time first degree entrants at UK HEIs in the 2013/14 academic year were no longer in higher education in the following year. The equivalent statistic for entrants in 2012/13 showed that 24,745 entrants were no longer in higher education in the following year.