Lord Freyberg – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Freyberg on 2016-07-13.
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many postgraduate students in England were enrolled in two-year masters’ degree courses to study (1) applied art and design, (2) art and design, (3) drama, (4) media, film or TV, (5) music, (6) dance, (7) performing arts, and (8) design and technology, in (a) 2009–10, (b) 2010–11, (c) 2011–12, (d) 2012–13, (e) 2013–14, (f) 2014–15, and (g) 2015–16.
Earl of Courtown
Information on enrolments at UK Higher Education Institutions is collected and published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), and the latest academic year for which data are available is 2014/15.
The Joint Academic Coding System (JACS) is the classification of subjects used by HESA. The specific breakdown of subjects requested is not available using the JACS classification, so a breakdown of the Creative Arts and Design category has been provided as an alternative.
The government is for the first time introducing a new £10,000 master’s loan to support those wishing to progress into postgraduate study.
First year enrolments1 to two-year masters2 degree courses in Creative Arts and Design subjects. English3 Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). Academic years 2009/10 to 2014/15:
|
2009/10 |
2010/11 |
2011/12 |
2012/13 |
2013/14 |
2014/15 |
|
|
Fine art |
625 |
610 |
700 |
630 |
695 |
700 |
|
Design studies |
1,025 |
1,135 |
1,090 |
1,085 |
1,225 |
1,125 |
|
Music |
710 |
700 |
680 |
675 |
680 |
630 |
|
Drama |
165 |
190 |
205 |
250 |
230 |
255 |
|
Dance |
55 |
45 |
45 |
35 |
65 |
50 |
|
Cinematics & photography |
350 |
335 |
370 |
445 |
375 |
200 |
|
Crafts |
15 |
15 |
20 |
5 |
20 |
10 |
|
Imaginative writing |
400 |
360 |
380 |
495 |
370 |
345 |
|
Others in creative arts & design |
90 |
120 |
105 |
125 |
90 |
110 |
|
Total (Creative arts & design) |
3,425 |
3,515 |
3,595 |
3,745 |
3,750 |
3,425 |
|
Total (all subjects) |
39,200 |
32,995 |
35,475 |
33,630 |
32,885 |
33,965 |
Source: BIS analysis of the HESA Student Record
Note: All figures are rounded to the nearest 5.
-
Figures are Full-Person-Equivalents (FPE), so if someone is jointly studying Fine art and Design studies, they would count as 0.5 FPE within each category.
-
Figures relate to students with an expected study length of less than or equal to two years, but more than one year.
-
For consistency across years, the Open University is counted as an English HEI.
