- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 16 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what subsidy it provides in the current year to higher education institutions for students from (a) Scotland, (b) other parts of the United Kingdom and (c) other parts of the European Union.
Answer
The Scottish Executive provides funding to higher education institutions through the ScottishHigher Education Funding Council. The Funding Council allocates funding toinstitutions and not in support of individual students.
The Student Awards Agencyfor Scotland (SAAS) pays a tuition fee contribution (£1,125 in 2003-04) onbehalf of all eligible Scottish domiciled and EU students undertaking full-timehigher education courses in Scotland. SAAS also makes a means-tested contribution up tothat amount for Scottish domiciled students on full-time higher educationcourses elsewhere in the UK. A limited number of Scottish domiciled and EUstudents undertaking taught post-graduate level courses in Scotlandwill have a fee contribution of £2,940 made on their behalf by SAAS.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 16 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of students at each higher education institution in Scotland is domiciled outwith the United Kingdom and what this percentage is for the whole of Scotland.
Answer
The percentages of students domiciled outwith the United Kingdom, at each higher education institution in Scotland, in 2001-02, are presented in the following table:
Higher Education Students at Higher Education Institutions in Scotland, 2001-02
| | % Non UK Domicile | Non UK Domicile | All Domicile |
| University of Abertay Dundee | 13.2 | 611 | 4,617 |
| Edinburgh College of Art | 17.2 | 297 | 1,731 |
| Glasgow School of Art | 14.9 | 215 | 1,442 |
| Queen Margaret College | 16.3 | 722 | 4,416 |
| The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama | 9.9 | 66 | 666 |
| The Robert Gordon University | 11.7 | 1,311 | 11,250 |
| The University of Paisley | 5.4 | 579 | 10,794 |
| Glasgow Caledonian University | 3.7 | 559 | 15,170 |
| Napier University | 9.8 | 1,323 | 13,568 |
| The University of Edinburgh | 14.8 | 3,659 | 24,667 |
| The University of Glasgow | 6.9 | 1,627 | 23,510 |
| The University of Strathclyde | 14.0 | 3,197 | 22,775 |
| The University of Aberdeen | 13.9 | 1,905 | 13,753 |
| Heriot-Watt University 1 | 65.9 | 11,648 | 17,677 |
| The University of Dundee | 13.1 | 2,043 | 15,584 |
| The University of St Andrews | 24.9 | 1,890 | 7,576 |
| The University of Stirling | 8.7 | 759 | 8,751 |
| Scottish Agricultural College | 3.8 | 27 | 712 |
| UHI Millennium Institute | 0.7 | 42 | 5,922 |
| Bell College | 0.5 | 20 | 3,957 |
| Scotland | 15.6 | 32,500 | 208,538 |
Source: Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)
Note:
1. Heriot Watt University has a high enrolment of distance learning students with 88% of non-UK domiciled students being distance learners.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on how the salaries of graduates domiciled in Scotland compare with the salaries of graduates domiciled elsewhere in (a) the United Kingdom, (b) the countries which will become the European Higher Education Area in 2010 and (c) other areas of the world.
Answer
(a) The average salary forgraduates who were full time employees and resident in Scotland was£29,000 in 2002. The average salary for graduates who were full time employeesand resident elsewhere in the United Kingdom was £32,000 in 2002.
(b)This information is not held centrally.
(c) This information is notheld centrally.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of teacher training graduates (a) qualified from teacher training colleges in each year since 1995 and (b) it expects to qualify from teacher training colleges in each year up to 2007.
Answer
The table shows initial teacher education college graduates as a proportion of all initial teacher education graduates in Scotland, for each year from 1994-95 to 2001-02:
| | 1994-95 | 1995-96 | 1996-97 | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999- 2000 | 2000-01 | 2001-02 |
| ITE Colleges/All ITE (%) | 53 | 58 | 57 | 57 | 35 | 19 | 19 | 0 |
| ITE Universities/All ITE (%) | 47 | 42 | 43 | 43 | 65 | 81 | 81 | 100 |
By 2001-02 all colleges of education had merged with a university and future projections are therefore not relevant.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to achieve the targets of reducing class si'es to (a) 25 in P1, (b) 20 in S1 maths, (c) 20 in S2 maths, (d) 20 in S1 English and (e) 20 in S2 English.
Answer
The target date for the overarchingPartnership for a Better Scotland commitments to significantly increase teachernumbers to 53,000 and associated class size commitments is August 2007.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to change the content and delivery of initial teacher education.
Answer
The current review ofinitial teacher education is addressing, among other things, both theseaspects. The review group is expected to report to me by the end of March 2004 orshortly thereafter.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it provides to alleviate student hardship in (a) higher education institutions and (b) further education colleges.
Answer
The following table gives the amount of Hardship Funds, Hardship Loans and Mature Students’ Bursary Funds (MSBF) allocated to both further and higher education institutions and the amount of Young Students’ Retention Fund (YSRF) allocated to further education institutions in 2003-04.
| | Further Education Colleges | Higher Education Institutes | |
| | FE Students | HE Students | Undergraduate Students | Postgraduate Students | Total |
| Hardship Funds | £3,518,452 | £279,644 | £2,989,356 | £1,239,828 | £8,027,280 |
| Hardship Loans | n/a | £275,100 | £717,400 | n/a | £992,500 |
| MSBF | n/a | £4,432,664 | £4,267,336 | n/a | £8,700,000 |
| YSRF | £1,679,360 | n/a | n/a | n/a | £1,679,360 |
| | | | | | £19,399,140 |
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Peter Peacock on 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many teachers qualified in the last year and how many teachers it expects to qualify in each year up to 2007 with an (a) Bachelor of Education and (b) Postgraduate Certificate in Education.
Answer
Information on how many teachers qualified in session 2002-03 and projections of how many teachers are expected to qualify in each year up to 2007 with an (a) Bachelor of Education (BEd) and (b) Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) is shown in the table:
| | Year | BEd | PGCE | Total |
| Actual | 2002-03 | 586 | 1,500 | 2,086 |
| Projections* | 2003-04 | 690 | 1,740 | 2,430 |
| 2004-05 | 680 | 1,980 | 2,660 |
| 2005-06 | 740 | 2,650 | 3,390 |
| 2006-07 | 700 | 2,530 | 3,230 |
| | Total | 3,396 | 10,400 | 13,796 |
Note: *Rounded to the nearest 10.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether additional academic staff are being recruited for the purpose of training teachers as part of the expansion of initial teacher training announced in its press release SEed539/2004 on 23 February 2004.
Answer
This information is not heldcentrally. Staff recruitment is a matter for individual higher education institutions.
- Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Lothians, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 10 March 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many students domiciled in other areas of the United Kingdom are studying in Scottish higher education institutions and how many Scottish-domiciled students are studying in higher education institutions in other areas of the UK.
Answer
In 2001-02, there were 27,223students domiciled in other areas of the United Kingdom (excluding Scotland)studying in Scottish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), and 13,044 studentsdomiciled in Scotland studying in HEIs in other areas of the United Kingdom.
