Written answers
Thursday, 28 April 2005
Department of Education and Science
Third Level Education
5:00 pm
Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)
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Question 234: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the breakdown of the numbers of students studying full-time courses and the number studying part-time courses in the universities and institutes of technology in 1997, 2002 and 2004. [13807/05]
Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the table. It should be noted that completed data are not yet available to my Department for the current academic year and accordingly data for 2003-04 has been provided.
| Number of full-time and part-time students enrolled in universities and institutes of technology for each of the academic years stated below | ||||||
| 1997/1998 | 2002/2003 | 2003/2004 | ||||
| Institutions | Full-time enrolments | Part-time enrolments | Full-time enrolments | Part-time enrolments | Full-time enrolments | Part-time enrolments |
| Higher Education Authority (University Sector) | 61,308 | 9,365 | 74,922 | 14,036 | 77,491 | 13,420 |
| University College Cork — National University of Ireland, Cork | 10,207 | 930 | 12,492 | 1,273 | 12,993 | 1,314 |
| University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Dublin | 14,400 | 2,901 | 15,888 | 4,271 | 16,313 | 4,295 |
| National University of Ireland, Galway | 7,539 | 446 | 11,020 | 1,686 | 11,368 | 1,620 |
| Trinity College, Dublin | 10,159 | 2,004 | 11,628 | 2,798 | 11,722 | 2,587 |
| National University of Ireland, Maynooth | 3,758 | 820 | 4,707 | 574 | 4,956 | 436 |
| Dublin City University | 5,110 | 1,188 | 6,205 | 1,445 | 6,591 | 1,302 |
| University of Limerick | 6,963 | 828 | 8,142 | 1,576 | 8,494 | 1,512 |
| St. Patrick's Teacher Training College, Drumcondra | 1,072 | 121 | 2,033 | 171 | 2,012 | 185 |
| Mary Immaculate College of Education, Limerick | 1,354 | 116 | 1,983 | 198 | 2,187 | 143 |
| National College of Art & Design | 746 | 11 | 824 | 44 | 855 | 26 |
| Institutes of Technology / Other Technological Colleges | 41,909 | 13,157 | 51,507 | 17,404 | 53,586 | 17,321 |
| Dublin Institute of Technology | 9,807 | 5,891 | 10,240 | 5,634 | 10,307 | 5,793 |
| Athlone Institute of Technology | 2,795 | 435 | 3,466 | 365 | 3,517 | 388 |
| Institute of Technology, Carlow | 2,450 | 575 | 2,476 | 534 | 2,510 | 513 |
| Cork Institute of Technology | 4,675 | 2,401 | 6,068 | 3,187 | 6,108 | 3,509 |
| Dundalk Institute of Technology | 2,362 | 194 | 2,624 | 395 | 3,111 | 719 |
| Galway — Mayo Institute of Technology | 3,644 | 333 | 4,563 | 1,090 | 4,983 | 1,108 |
| Letterkenny Institute of Technology | 1,530 | 239 | 1,927 | 274 | 2,041 | 124 |
| Limerick Institute of Technology | 2,625 | 803 | 3,602 | 904 | 3,639 | 794 |
| Institute of Technology, Sligo | 2,550 | 312 | 3,441 | 400 | 3,340 | 454 |
| Institute of Technology, Tallaght | 1,646 | 1,528 | 2,297 | 1,371 | 2,507 | 738 |
| Institute of Technology, Tralee | 2,286 | 160 | 2,422 | 197 | 2,485 | 205 |
| Waterford Institute of Technology * | 4,744 | 224 | 5,711 | 2,430 | 6,062 | 2,430 |
| Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology | 462 | 41 | 1,255 | 53 | 1,355 | 55 |
| Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown† | 0 | 0 | 856 | 297 | 1,027 | 353 |
| Tipperary Institute† | 0 | 0 | 354 | 224 | 386 | 87 |
| Hotel Training/Catering Coll, Killybegs | 333 | 21 | 205 | 49 | 208 | 51 |
| Overall Total | 103,217 | 22,522 | 126,429 | 31,440 | 131,077 | 30,741 |
| * No data received for the 2003-04 academic year. Data refer to the 2002-03 academic year. | ||||||
| † Enrolments in Blanchardstown IOT and Tipperary Institute commenced in 1999-2000 academic year. |
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