Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 26 April 2022
1189. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science 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]
View answerThe 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.
|
New entrants in year: |
Non-progression rate in psychology courses |
Overall non-progression rate |
|
2015/2016 |
6% |
14% |
|
2016/2017 |
7% |
13% |
|
2017/2018 |
9% |
13% |
|
2018/2019 |
7% |
12% |
|
2019/2020 |
5% |
9% |
