As I have previously indicated to the Deputy in response to recent question on this subject, the provisional postgraduate enrolment data for 2012/13 will not be available until mid December 2012 at the earliest. The most recent data available on entrants to postgraduate courses is for 2011/12.
Data for 2010/11 and 2011/12, as previously supplied, shows that 1st year enrolments for Research Masters and PhDs increased from 1,862 in 2010/11 to 2,156 in 2011/12 which represents an overall increase of 16%. The number of 1st year enrolments on all postgraduate programmes (both research and taught) remained largely stable at 12,494 in 2010/11 and 12,424 in 2011/12.