SAS Chapter 5 : page :18

The Scottish Abstract of Statistics No 26,1998

Chart 5D2 Percentage of students registered on higher education courses in further education colleges; by subject group and sex, 1996/97

Bar Chart

Source: SOEID Education Statistics

Table 5D4 Number of students in higher education: by year, mode of study and level 1986/87, 1992/93 to 1996/97

Year	Full-time				Part-time
Year	Total	Postgrad	1st Degree	Other HE	Total	Postgrad	1st Degree	Other HE
1986/87	81,640	9,203	57,974	14,463	39,193	5,075	3,344	30,774
1992/93	120,483	13,095	87,057	20,331	46,700	8,638	7,014	31,048
1993/94	132,509	13,848	93,394	25,267	47,220	9,918	7,722	29,580
1994/95 ¹	142,722	15,428	98,197	29,097	59,158	17,701	7,207	34,250
1995/96	145,634	16,127	99,917	29,590	69,570	21,089	7,516	40,965
1996/97	156,997	17,506	102,567	36,924	82,308	24,192	8,407	49,709

Source: SOEID Education Statistics

¹ From 1994-95 onwards, information on students at Scotland’s 22 Higher Education Institutions has been collected by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). As a result of this change in collection administration, there is a discontinuity in the figures between 1993-94 and 1994-95.