Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who began a postgraduate course for 2012/2013; the number that commenced a postgraduate course in 2011/2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49567/12]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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As I have previously indicated to the Deputy in response to recent question on this subject, the provisional postgraduate enrolment data for 2012/13 will not be available until mid December 2012 at the earliest. The most recent data available on entrants to postgraduate courses is for 2011/12.

Data for 2010/11 and 2011/12, as previously supplied, shows that 1st year enrolments for Research Masters and PhDs increased from 1,862 in 2010/11 to 2,156 in 2011/12 which represents an overall increase of 16%. The number of 1st year enrolments on all postgraduate programmes (both research and taught) remained largely stable at 12,494 in 2010/11 and 12,424 in 2011/12.