Annual Academic Year Review 2007-2008 (17th edition)
Student profiles – tables 2 to 8
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- 3.2.1 Age on entry – tables 2 and 2a
- 3.2.2 Gender – tables 3 and 3a
- 3.2.3 Domicile – tables 4 and 4a
- 3.2.4 Entry Qualifications – tables 5 and 5a
- 3.2.5 Tariff Scores – tables 6 and 6a
- 3.2.6 Ethnic Origin – tables 7 and 7a
- 3.2.7 Disability – tables 8 and 8a
- 3.3 Progression - tables 9 to 16
3.2 Student profiles – tables 2 to 8Comprehensive profile data at a course, school and faculty level is available for download on Staffcentral, and is intended to be of particular assistance to staff compiling monitoring reports for the Academic Heath process. Staff will need to login to Staffcentral to access the file, which can be found by selecting the Academic Health Data button on the Homepage. The following analysis summarises the key indicators from that information, including analysis by qualifications on entry, domicile and tariff scores. 3.2.1 Age on entry – tables 2 and 2aThere has been no significant change in the age distribution of students during the last three academic years. Whilst there has been a steady increase in the proportion of students aged between 18 and 20 (39% in 2005-06, 41% in 2006-07 and 42% in 2007-08), the University as a whole (all levels and modes) continues to have a high proportion (57%) of mature students (i.e. 21 and over). Of full-time undergraduate students, some 66% are young (under 21 on entry). 3.2.2 Gender – tables 3 and 3aThe overall proportion of female to male students has decreased slightly between 2006-07 and 2007-08. However there has been an increase, albeit small, in the proportion of female students undertaking full-time Undergraduate programmes (57% of females in 2006-07 were on FT UG programmes whilst 58% of females were on FT UG programmes in 2007-08). The proportion of female students (62%) exceeds that of the HE sector as a whole, where female students made up 57% of the entire HE population in 2006-07. 3.2.3 Domicile – tables 4 and 4aStudents report on their country of domicile at entry. There has been a 14% decrease in the number of Overseas students over the three year period 2005-06 to 2007-08. In 2007-08 Overseas students formed 6% of the total student population. According to HESA statistics, students from outside the EU represented 10.1% of the entire HE population in 2006-07. EU (non UK) students have consistently formed 7% of the total University (including Partner institutions) population over the three year period. However the proportions may be affected by the number of unknown values (132 students in 2007-08 for whom no domicile data is recorded). 3.2.4 Entry Qualifications – tables 5 and 5aFor the purposes of returns to HESA, we are required to code students according to their highest qualification held at the point of entry. It should be noted however that this is not necessarily the qualification required for entry. There has been a steady increase in the proportion of students holding A/AS levels and equivalent qualifications over the three year period, from 43% in 2005-06 to 46% in 2007-08. The increase in the proportion of ‘Not known' is not welcomed, particularly in light of the changes to the HEFCE funding methodology and requires further investigation. 32% of students who already hold a postgraduate qualification are undertaking a further programme of study at undergraduate level. This becomes increasingly significant with the introduction of the new “ELQ” policy, whereby HEFCE no longer fund through the ‘T’ Grant students studying on programmes when they already hold either an equivalent or higher qualification. 3.2.5 Tariff Scores – tables 6 and 6aWhere students enter the University on the basis of A/AS levels, table 6 summarises their tariff scores. All other students are reported as ‘Not applicable/not known’. It should be noted that the tariff associated with General Studies is included in the data, although General Studies is not always applicable for the calculation of tariff for entry. Some 28% of students on UG programmes (both full and part-time) who have A/AS levels have tariff scores in excess of 320. This is an increase of just over 3% on the position in 2006-07, and matches a similar increase between 2005-06 and 2006-07. 3.2.6 Ethnic Origin – tables 7 and 7aStudents self-identify at the point of application/entry to higher education, and can choose to refuse this information. HESA require us to collect this information for all Home domiciled students, but it is not compulsory for students from Overseas. The proportion of students from an Asian/Asian British background has remained steady at 6% between 2006-07 and 2007-08, and the proportion of Black or Black British has remained constant at 4% over the same period. The proportion of White students has declined by 1%, a trend that has pertained over the three academic years shown (77% in 2005-06, 75% in 2006-07 and 74% in 2007-08) when all populations are included. However, if we exclude both the ‘Not known’ and ‘Information refused’ values from the analysis, all populations have remained constant over the past 3 academic years. According to HESA statistics the participation in HE by students from ethnic minorities continues to increase overall, and in 2006-07 16.4% of first year students of known ethnicity were from ethnic minority groups, an increase from 16.0% in 2005-06. 3.2.7 Disability – tables 8 and 8aThe proportion of students declaring a disability has remained constant at 9% between 2006-07 and 2007-08. In 2007-08, 84% of those declaring a disability were on undergraduate programmes of study, a decrease of 1% on the previous year, 14% were on postgraduate taught programmes and just 2% were undertaking research degrees. HESA statistics confirm that in 2006-07 7.5% of the total UK domiciled HE population had a declared disability. 3.3 Progression - tables 9 to 16The Academic Health dataset includes detailed data on progression and awards recorded on the SITS system as at 11th August 2008. Thus the proportion of students for whom a progression decision has been deferred until September are known and reported as an additional performance indicator for consideration at annual monitoring. Once deferral boards have met (and the data has been recorded on SITS) the Academic Health datasets will be reissued to provide further analysis on the outcome of those students as well as others for whom no decision was known as at 11th August. The two assessment periods are identified in the tables attached and in the detailed datasets made available for school use. This analysis and the datasets provided to the Schools for the purposes of Annual Monitoring compare this year’s data (2007-08) with 2006-07 and 2005-06 data at the equivalent point in time. Thus it is possible to see whether the proportion of students subject to deferral or progressed with conditions has increased or decreased since last year at the same time. The data for 2007-08 shows that there has been an observable reduction in the proportions of students for whom progression conditions have been set, from 3.0% in 2006-07 to 1.8% in 2007-08. There is a 1% decrease in the percentage of deferred decisions, from 12.1% in 2006-07 as at 11th August 2007, to 11.1% in 2007-08 at the comparable point in time. The analysis shows that as at 11th August 2008 there were some 2,550 students for whom a decision on their progression had been deferred to a subsequent board. This is in addition to the 3,976 students for whom no progression decision had yet been recorded on the SITS system, either because the summer board had yet to meet or because the progression data resulting from Board decisions had not yet been entered by Schools at the point at which the dataset underpinning this analysis was retrieved. The increase of this particular figure is disappointing to note, given the continued implementation of the “Automated Progression” facility in Schools, in order to speed up the capture of this important data, the absence of which impacts on students’ abilities to re-enrol for the following year in a timely fashion. The bulk of unknown decisions appear to be within the School of Nursing and Midwifery where some 74.3% of their students had no outcome recorded as at 11th August 2008. Tables 10 – 16 take a summary view of progression outcomes according to the profile characteristics of our students (age on entry, ethnic origin etc) for the three year period. Thus, the proportion of female students progressing unconditionally shows some fluctuation over the period (25% in 2005-06, 28.7% in 2006-07 and 27.5% in 2007-08), whilst the percentage of male students progressing with conditions has decreased from 4.1% in 2006-07 to 2.4% in 2007-08 (table 11). The proportions will however be affected by the volume of students for whom an outcome is as yet unrecorded (17.4% of the total population in 2007-08). Directory: reg reg -> Board of Historic Resources Quarterly Meeting 16 June 2016 Sponsor Markers Diversity reg -> Port Cambeltown dated 8th April 1830 Name reg -> Contents september 2009 I. 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