Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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1189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the drop-out rate of clinical counselling and educational psychologists and psychotherapy in each of the years since 2011, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20127/22]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy is not held by my Department. The HEA conducts analysis of non-progression rates for undergraduate students, but does not hold this information for postgraduate students.

The HEA recently published an analysis of non-progression for new entrants in 2017, 2018 and 2019. This report is published on the HEA website at the following link:hea.ie/statistics/data-for-download-and-visualisations/students/progression/progression-introduction/ 

This analysis looks at first year undergraduates who do not progress into second year. The report shows that undergraduate psychology courses have a non-progression rate below the average non-progression rate, as can be seen in the table below.