John O'Mahony (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 758: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the numbers and rates of drop out in each of the universities and institutes or technology here in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23631/08]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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Currently the Higher Education Authority does not collate attrition rates for the third level institutions. However with the recent introduction of a new Student Record System to collect and analyse data, retention reporting will be possible in the near future with respect to the universities. As the HEA has only commenced collecting data from the Institutes of Technology from 1 March 2008 a number of years of data collection will be required before analysis of retention from this sector will be possible.