Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 29 November 2022
538. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science 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]
View answerThis 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:
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New entrant nursing and midwifery Undergraduate Honours Degree |
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Entry Basis (Description) |
2019/2020 |
2020/2021 |
2021/2022 |
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Further Education Award or equivalent (e.g. BTEC) |
154 |
141 |
164 |
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Total (all students) |
1,808 |
1,937 |
1,994 |
