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Tuesday, 29 November 2022

Department of Education and Skills

Third Level Admissions

Photo of Rose Conway-WalshRose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who were accepted onto undergraduate nursing courses following the completion of a level 5 pre-nursing course in 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 academic years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59178/22]

Photo of Simon HarrisSimon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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This information is not held by my Department. The majority of our statistics on higher education enrolments are drawn from the Student Records System (SRS) of the HEA. The HEA Student Records System (SRS) has been collecting the entry basis of students entering higher education programmes from 2018/2019 academic year.

The table below outlines the overall number of first-year new entrants accepted onto undergraduate nursing programmes (honours degrees), based on field of study. The breakdown of the number of these entrants reported to have entered on the basis of a further education qualification is outlined below. This is the most granular level of detail available from the SRS which does not specify if these students have entered on the basis of a level 5 pre-nursing course:

New entrant nursing and midwifery Undergraduate Honours Degree
Entry Basis (Description) 2019/2020 2020/2021 2021/2022
Further Education Award or equivalent (e.g. BTEC) 154 141 164
Total (all students) 1,808 1,937 1,994

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