Figure 10 - HE student enrolments (including on AP designated courses) by level and HE provider type

• Title: HE student enrolments at HE, FE and designated courses at alternative providers by level of study, HE provider type, mode of study and country of HE provider
• Reference ID: SFR249 Figure 10
• Location: UK
• Time period: 2015/16 - 2016/17
• Data source: HESA
• Sourced from: Higher Education Student Statistics: Alternative Providers, 2016/17
• Data source link: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/sfr249/figure-10
• Data file canonical link: https://www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/sfr249/figure-10.csv
• Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
• Disclaimer: Please note that this data includes rounded totals. Caution must be taken when importing into a pivot table so as not to double count.
• Table 2012/13 total: 2527035
• Table 2013/14 total: 2488835
• Table 2014/15 total: 2505605
• Table 2015/16 total: 2521460
• Table 2016/17 total: 2564470
• Last updated: Feb-18

Notes

HE providers includes The University of Buckingham, which although an AP, has submitted data through the HESA Student record since 2004/05.

Figures for FE providers in England were provided by the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA). Counts have been derived from the Individualised Learner Record (ILR) and include students who were enrolled in higher level study at Further Education Colleges. Students enrolled in community or workplace based learning (including traineeships that were not a full programme aim or apprenticeships) have been excluded from the figures. For enrolments where information on mode of study was unavailable, students with 450 or more planned learning hours have been classified as full-time, and those with under 450 planned learning hours have been classified as part-time. This is a change to the methodology used previously, which was based solely on planned learning hours, in order to improve the accuracy of the count. It was not possible to apply this methodology for the academic year 2012/13, hence there is a break in the series between 2012/13 and 2013/14.

Figures for FE providers in Wales were supplied by the Welsh Government for 2012/13 - 2015/16. The FE data collection for Wales is finalised in March each year, therefore 2015/16 data has been revised and may differ from those published previously. The mode of learning for FE data in Wales up to and including 2013/14 is derived using guided contact hours. Non-work-based learning programmes containing at least 450 guided contact hours per year were designated as full-time, and part-time otherwise. From 2014/15, the mode is determined directly from the new Learning Programme Code field. In 2016/17, HE students registered at FE providers in Wales were returned to the HESA student record.

Figures for FE providers in Scotland were supplied by the Scottish Funding Council, and cover Scotland's Colleges. In Scotland there is some overlap in the reporting of student enrolments by HEIs and Colleges where both the HEI and College share responsibility for the student. SFC estimates the number of these associate students to be around 1,500.

Figures for FE providers in Northern Ireland were supplied by the Department for the Economy Northern Ireland (DfE(NI)).