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Higher Education Statistics for the UK 2008/09

Release date: 23 September 2010

Higher Education Statistics for the UK serves as a quick reference guide to high-level data on all aspects of higher education in the UK.

The product is published in conjunction with the Government Statistical Service and is a National Statistics product. A wide variety of data is presented from all of our data streams and other organisations' streams. Much of this data is shown at sector level.

Data from the Student Loans Company on student support provision and information on participation and graduate rates for 30 countries sourced from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and data from the Labour Force Survey are included.

Foreword - Higher Education Statistics 2008/09 Definitions - Higher Education Statistics 2008/09 Notes to tables - Higher Education Statistics 2008/09
  • Table 0: Total higher education level students in the UK
  • Table 1: All students at UK HE institutions by domicile, level of study, mode of study and institution
  • Table 2: All HE students at UK HE institutions by mode of study, level of study, location of institution and domicile
  • Table 3: All HE students at UK HE institutions by location of institution, level of study, mode of study, age group and gender analysed by first years and all years
  • Table 4: All HE students at UK HE institutions by location of institution, subject area, level of study and mode of study
  • Table 5: Undergraduate first years at UK HE institutions by location of institution, gender, mode of study and domicile
  • Table 6: Highest qualification on entry of first year students to first degree courses at UK HE institutions by location of institution and mode of study
  • Table 7: UK domiciled students at UK HE institutions by level of study, major source of tuition fees and country of domicile
  • Table 8: UK domiciled Initial Teacher Training (ITT) first years, all years and qualifications obtained at UK HE institutions by location of institution, gender and domicile
  • Table 9: Qualifications obtained at UK HE institutions by level of qualification obtained, location of institution and subject area
  • Table 10a: Students studying wholly overseas by location of institution, type and level of provision
  • Table 10b: Students studying wholly overseas by location of institution, level and location of provision
  • Table 11ai: Destinations of leavers who obtained qualifications through full-time study by activity, level of qualification obtained, gender and age on completion
  • Table 11aii: Destinations of leavers who obtained qualifications through part-time study by activity, level of qualification obtained, gender and age on completion
  • Table 11b: Leavers from UK HE institutions who obtained first degrees and entered employment in the UK by Standard Occupational Classification, mode of former study and subject area
  • Table 12: Admissions statistics - summary of the UCAS scheme, 1994-2009 entry
  • Table 13a: Home applicants and acceptances through UCAS by gender and subject group, 2008/2009 entry
  • Table 13b: Home applicants and acceptances through UCAS by gender and ethnic group 2009 entry
  • Table 13c: Home applicants and acceptances through UCAS by gender and disability 2009 entry
  • Table 14a: Accepted home applicants by region of accepting institution, region of domicile of home applicants to UCAS, 2008 entry
  • Table 14b: Accepted home applicants by region of accepting institution, region of domicile of home applicants to UCAS, 2009 entry
  • Table 15: All staff (excluding atypical) at UK HE institutions by location of institution, mode of employment, activity, source of basic salary, academic employment function, salary range and gender
  • Table 16: Atypical staff at UK HE institutions by location of institution, activity and gender
  • Table 17: Income of UK HE institutions by location of institution and source of income
  • Table 18: Expenditure of UK HE institutions by location of institution and type of expenditure
  • Table 19a: Student Finance Awards to Student Support Scheme Students in England: Academic years 2004/05 to 2009/10 (provisional)
  • Table 19b: Fee and Maintenance expenditure for Welsh domiciled statutory Student Support Scheme Students and EU students studying in Wales: Academic years 2003/04 to 2009/10 (provisional)
  • Table 19c: Estimated eligibility and take-up of Maintenance Loans in England: Academic years 2005/06 to 2009/10 (provisional)
  • Table 19d: Eligibility and take-up of Maintenance Loans by Welsh domiciled students: Academic years 2002/2003 to 2009/10 (provisional)
  • Table 20: Higher education: participation and graduation rates 2007
  • Table 21a: Percentage of UK population with higher education qualifications by age and gender over time
  • Table 21b: Percentage of UK population with postgraduate qualifications by age and gender over time
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