Dr. Aed?n Doris:

Regarding the issue of students having to travel and whether that impacts on their experience, it is hard to get good data on what determines student outcomes. I am starting work on a data set, which is the result of a collaboration between the HEA and the Central Statistics Office, CSO. It has earnings data for graduates and is linked to some characteristics, but not very many. We do not have information on the students' home places, for example. I plead for more data every time I speak at a forum like this. We do not have many data to answer many of the questions we would like to be able to answer. If the committee can do anything to push that along, that would be great.