Written answers
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Department of Education and Skills
Departmental Data
Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of part-time undergraduate and postgraduate students in public institutes of higher education each year since 2011 including the 2022/2023 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60227/22]
Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The data requested by the Deputy is contained in the table below. This data was sourced from the HEA student records system (SRS) for the academic years 2010/2011 to 2021/2022, which is the most recent available, and by course level, undergraduate and postgraduate enrolments.
PT enrolments | 2010/2011 | 2011/2012 | 2012/2013 | 2013/2014 | 2014/2015 | 2015/2016 | 2016/2017 | 2017/2018 | 2018/2019 | 2019/2020 | 2020/2021 | 2021/2022 |
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Undergraduate | 19,802 | 21,242 | 20,627 | 21,236 | 20,897 | 22,192 | 21,988 | 23,794 | 25,555 | 27,392 | 27,204 | 24,729 |
Postgraduate | 12,861 | 12,812 | 14,015 | 14,490 | 15,139 | 15,057 | 15,645 | 16,307 | 17,474 | 18,401 | 22,454 | 21,533 |
Grand Total | 32,663 | 34,054 | 34,642 | 35,726 | 36,036 | 37,249 | 37,633 | 40,101 | 43,029 | 45,793 | 49,658 | 46,262 |
Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of part-time undergraduates and postgraduate students in each public institute of higher education each year since 2011 including the 2022/2023 academic year in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60228/22]
Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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My Department sources its statistics on student enrolments from the HEA's Student Records System. The information requested by the Deputy is contained in the attached spreadsheet and includes part time enrolments by higher education institution from 2010/2022 to 2021/2022 academic years. The data provides both undergraduate and postgraduate part time enrolments. The enrolments for 2022/2023 are not yet available from the HEA student records system (SRS).
Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of part-time third level students by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60229/22]
Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy is contained in the attached spreadsheet for academic years 2010/2011 to 2021/2022, the most recent available, from the HEA student records system. Please note that the reference to unknown Ireland refers to where the domiciliary of the student was given as Ireland however, the county of origin was not provided.
Part-time enrolments by county
- | 2010/2011 | 2011/2012 | 2012/2013 | 2013/2014 | 2014/2015 | 2015/2016 | 2016/2017 | 2017/2018 | 2018/2019 | 2019/2020 | 2020/2021 | 2021/2022 |
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Ireland (ROI) | 30,572 | 32,176 | 33,427 | 34,217 | 34,187 | 35,395 | 35,304 | 38,057 | 40,615 | 43,690 | 47,246 | 43,454 |
Carlow | 411 | 471 | 466 | 526 | 483 | 630 | 596 | 661 | 653 | 679 | 653 | 631 |
Cavan | 228 | 246 | 279 | 252 | 279 | 301 | 321 | 388 | 449 | 429 | 554 | 476 |
Clare | 732 | 685 | 688 | 782 | 716 | 762 | 804 | 772 | 1,005 | 1,129 | 1,230 | 1,126 |
Cork | 3,467 | 4,030 | 4,293 | 4,923 | 4,774 | 4,853 | 5,033 | 5,262 | 5,505 | 6,165 | 6,678 | 5,980 |
Donegal | 611 | 560 | 692 | 742 | 872 | 943 | 922 | 1,157 | 1,107 | 1,247 | 1,290 | 1,156 |
Dublin | 9,337 | 9,715 | 9,695 | 9,843 | 10,076 | 10,424 | 9,689 | 10,248 | 11,388 | 12,402 | 13,722 | 12,594 |
Galway | 2,719 | 2,717 | 3,069 | 3,181 | 3,554 | 2,869 | 3,434 | 3,920 | 2,870 | 3,082 | 3,011 | 2,705 |
Kerry | 688 | 772 | 681 | 699 | 673 | 671 | 736 | 745 | 911 | 946 | 1,065 | 1,067 |
Kildare | 1,447 | 1,620 | 1,699 | 1,682 | 1,723 | 1,795 | 1,747 | 1,926 | 2,047 | 2,183 | 2,483 | 2,342 |
Kilkenny | 514 | 589 | 636 | 697 | 683 | 701 | 730 | 788 | 886 | 876 | 954 | 897 |
Laois | 402 | 410 | 427 | 431 | 420 | 489 | 479 | 492 | 574 | 566 | 651 | 619 |
Leitrim | 177 | 147 | 184 | 164 | 172 | 197 | 202 | 225 | 238 | 242 | 278 | 251 |
Limerick | 1,202 | 1,120 | 1,146 | 1,337 | 1,236 | 1,246 | 1,311 | 1,350 | 1,514 | 1,875 | 1,990 | 1,886 |
Longford | 223 | 230 | 241 | 196 | 210 | 254 | 212 | 285 | 314 | 307 | 305 | 281 |
Louth | 573 | 634 | 681 | 688 | 669 | 779 | 741 | 750 | 876 | 1,041 | 1,216 | 1,037 |
Mayo | 674 | 756 | 808 | 649 | 612 | 838 | 670 | 784 | 989 | 999 | 925 | 886 |
Meath | 956 | 1,066 | 1,075 | 1,110 | 1,118 | 1,190 | 1,231 | 1,348 | 1,444 | 1,507 | 1,754 | 1,669 |
Monaghan | 184 | 185 | 215 | 207 | 208 | 239 | 292 | 349 | 327 | 363 | 468 | 434 |
Offaly | 416 | 374 | 384 | 425 | 461 | 488 | 456 | 518 | 603 | 600 | 588 | 545 |
Roscommon | 408 | 380 | 419 | 398 | 382 | 444 | 393 | 486 | 475 | 540 | 534 | 505 |
Sligo | 428 | 381 | 432 | 361 | 420 | 360 | 367 | 407 | 450 | 484 | 571 | 536 |
Tipperary | 843 | 782 | 797 | 932 | 871 | 888 | 929 | 1,015 | 1,115 | 1,234 | 1,423 | 1,350 |
Unknown Ireland | 449 | 874 | 1,043 | 617 | 147 | 242 | 372 | 35 | 395 | 217 | 7 | 10 |
Waterford | 912 | 907 | 928 | 878 | 895 | 1,051 | 1,009 | 1,043 | 1,154 | 1,157 | 1,257 | 1,198 |
Westmeath | 722 | 700 | 648 | 681 | 659 | 669 | 551 | 693 | 794 | 750 | 794 | 768 |
Wexford | 930 | 938 | 821 | 857 | 813 | 987 | 936 | 1,168 | 1,245 | 1,352 | 1,380 | 1,165 |
Wicklow | 919 | 887 | 980 | 959 | 1,061 | 1,085 | 1,141 | 1,242 | 1,287 | 1,318 | 1,465 | 1,340 |
Northern Ireland | 249 | 200 | 216 | 310 | 311 | 248 | 206 | 263 | 399 | 464 | 470 | 475 |
Antrim | 45 | 38 | 33 | 88 | 80 | 60 | 39 | 63 | 117 | 89 | 91 | 114 |
Armagh | 24 | 26 | 35 | 34 | 32 | 22 | 26 | 34 | 20 | 29 | 49 | 31 |
Derry | 45 | 38 | 31 | 70 | 65 | 50 | 46 | 57 | 123 | 185 | 144 | 114 |
Down | 80 | 54 | 64 | 67 | 64 | 66 | 61 | 69 | 85 | 103 | 109 | 109 |
Fermanagh | 10 | 13 | 11 | 17 | 13 | 21 | 15 | 20 | 33 | 27 | 34 | 44 |
Tyrone | 45 | 31 | 42 | 34 | 57 | 29 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 31 | 43 | 63 |
Grand Total | 30,821 | 32,376 | 33,643 | 34,527 | 34,498 | 35,643 | 35,510 | 38,320 | 41,014 | 44,154 | 47,716 | 43,929 |
Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of guidance counsellors employed directly by each ETB; the number contracted in each year since 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60230/22]
Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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Officials in my Department are currently compiling information on this request and will forward it directly to the Deputy as soon as the information becomes available.
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