Joanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify in the report School Completers What Next the way the following students categorised and also the way the study tallies with research carried out by the Higher Education Authority who were due last year to publish a report as part of its Who goes to College series of reports last published in 2006 those reports having previously detailed the socio economic background of college entrants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22462/13]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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In the report School Completers - What Next?, School Completers who -1. were attending full time courses in the state funded further education sector were classified as being in Second Level/Further Education and Training.2. were attending higher education part time were classified as being in Higher Education (if they were attending HEA Aided Institutions).3. had started first year in college but dropped out were classified as being in Higher Education as the data source related to enrolments in November of the year.

The HEA report is due to be published in the fourth quarter of 2013. Preliminary findings currently tally with the results of the School Completers - What Next? report.